Books from Metropolitan Books
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The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father
By Kao Kalia YangFrom the author of The Latehomecomer, a powerful memoir of her father, a Hmong song poet who sacrificed his gift for his children's future in America In the Hmong tradition, the song poet recounts the story of his people, their history and ...
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Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
By Laurent DuboisRevealing what lies behind the familiar moniker of "the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere," this indispensable book illuminates the foundations on which a new Haiti might yet emerge.
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The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine
By Nathan ThrallThe conventional story is that these well-meaning attempts at peacemaking were repeatedly thwarted by the use of violence.
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Red Fortress: History and Illusion in the Kremlin
By Catherine MerridaleMore than an absorbing history of Russia's most famous landmark, Red Fortress uses the Kremlin as a unique lens, bringing into focus the evolution of Russia's culture and the meaning of its politics.
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Primo Levi: A Life
By Ian ThomsonIn a radio interview Levi said the beard was the result of competition with his son Renzo, who had tried but failed to cultivate a Che ... Levi lookedon hisson with a fond if competitive tenderness; Renzo was sixteenandtallerthan him.
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With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful
By Glenn GreenwaldCogent, sharp, and urgent, this is a no-holds-barred indictment of a profoundly un-American system that sanctions immunity at the top and mercilessness for everyone else.
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Welcome to the New World
By Jake HalpernWelcome to the New World tells the Aldabaans’ story. Resettled in Connecticut with little English, few friends, and even less money, the family of seven strive to create something like home.
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This Side of Brightness: A Novel
By Colum McCannIn This Side of Brightness, Colum McCann confirms his place in the front ranks of modern writers.
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A Peculiar Indifference: The Neglected Toll of Violence on Black America
By Elliott Currie. . . This is not a Black crisis but a national emergency.” —The New York Times Book Review About 170,000 Black Americans have died in homicides just since the year 2000.
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A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America
By Jenna Weissman JoselitEngaging, imaginative, and original, A Perfect Fit uncovers a time in American history when getting dressed was more about fitting in than standing out and vividly shows how clothes expressed the spirit of democracy and the promise of ...
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No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
By Glenn GreenwaldA groundbreaking look at the NSA surveillance scandal, from the reporter who broke the story, Glenn Greenwald, star of Citizenfour, the Academy Award-winning documentary on Edward Snowden In May 2013, Glenn Greenwald set out for Hong Kong ...
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Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag
By Orlando FigesFor the time being, it would be enough simply to receive your tenth letter. The point of all of this is that I want to tell you just three words – two of them are pronouns and the third is a verb (to be read in all the tenses ...
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Lives Other Than My Own: A Memoir
By Emmanuel CarrereIn France, a young woman succumbs to illness, leaving her husband and small children bereft. Present at both events, Emmanuel Carrère sets out to tell the story of two families—shattered and ultimately restored.
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Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope
By Chalmers JohnsonIf we do not learn from the fates of past empires, he suggests, our decline and fall are foreordained. This is Johnson at his best: delivering both a warning and an urgent prescription for a remedy.
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Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
By Eduardo GaleanoFrom the winner of the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, a bitingly funny, kaleidoscopic vision of the first world through the eyes of the third Eduardo Galeano, author of...
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Journalism
By Joe SaccoA first for the world's greatest cartoon reporter, a collection of journalism, including articles on the American military in Iraq that have never been published in the United States Over the past decade, Joe Sacco, "our moral draughtsman" ...
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
By Barbara EhrenreichNow, in Bait and Switch, she enters another hidden realm of the economy: the shadowy world of the white-collar unemployed.
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How to Become a Scandal: Adventures in Bad Behavior
By Laura KipnisIn How to Become a Scandal, bad behavior is the entry point for a brilliant cultural romp as well as an anti-civics lesson.
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The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda
By Andrew RiceIf you trace any of the cannibalism stories back to its source, you inevitably end up with a flimsy account from an ... I thank my father, Thomas J. Rice, the author of Cannibal Joyce (Gainesville: The University Press of Florida, ...
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A World on Edge: The End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age
By Daniel SchönpflugThe story of the aftermath of World War I, a transformative time when a new world seemed possible—told from the vantage of people, famous and ordinary, who lived through the turmoil November 1918.