Featured Books

Bitter Chocolate

The Dark Side of the World's Most Seductive Sweet

Carol Off

A shocking exposé of the little-known corruption and exploitation found at the heart of the multibillion-dollar cocoa industry – “Blood Diamonds” for chocolate

The Case for Make Believe

Saving Play in a Commercialized World

Susan Linn

From the author of consuming kids, a clarion call for preserving play in our material world, a book every parent will want to read

The Devil in Dover

An Insider’s Story of Dogma v. Darwin in Small-Town America

Lauri Lebo

The page-turning story behind the 2005 intelligent design case in Dover, Pennsylvania-the case that made front-page news around the world

The Eye of the Leopard

A Novel

Henning Mankell

A haunting novel juxtaposing a man’s coming of age in Sweden with his life in Zambia, from the internationally bestselling author

The New Blue Media

How Michael Moore, MoveOn.org, Jon Stewart and Company Are Transforming Progressive Politics

Theodore Hamm

The penetrating-and entertaining-story of the rise of a new generation of liberal media figures, from Jon Stewart and Michael Moore to Moveon and the Blue Blogosphere

Only Love Can Break Your Heart

David Samuels


"With an intelligence and unsparing lucidity reminiscent of Joan Didion’s work circa Slouching Towards Bethlehem (1968), Mr. Samuels has written some of the best long-form literary journalism of the past decade."

—Michael Washburn,The New York Observer

The Runner

A True Account of the Amazing Lies and Fantastical Adventures of the Ivy League Impostor James Hogue

David Samuels

A classic American story of a homeless drifter who starts a new life by making up a fake identity and gaining admission to Princeton University, based on the acclaimed New Yorker article

The Senator and the Sharecropper

The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer

Chris Myers Asch

The epic struggle for Black equality in the 20th century, told through the deeply-intertwined life histories of the staunch segregationist and his sharecropper nemesis

Up to Our Eyeballs

How Shady Lenders and Failed Economic Policies Are Drowning Americans in Debt

José García, James Lardner, Cindy Zeldin

A groundbreaking book that debunks the notion that Americans’ personal indebtedness results from profligacy and offers startling analysis and realistic solutions

Wartime Writings

1943–1949

Marguerite Duras

Published for the first time in English, the World War II notebooks of one of the twentieth century’s most renowned literary figures

The World of Mexican Migrants

The Rock and the Hard Place

Judith Adler Hellman

By the acclaimed author of the bestselling Mexican lives, a surprising behind-the-headlines look at the lives of Mexican migrants, in the tradition of Oscar Lewis’s classic five families

New This Month

Fires in the Middle School Bathroom: Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers

The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling Fires in the Bathroom - Filled with practical, honest advice from middle school students to their teachers

Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

A landmark study that offers an alternative history of the Cold War from the point of view of the world's poor

Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn from the Past

Leading historians tease out the connections between the Vietnam War and the Iraq War—and point to the many lessons that went unlearned

Shakespeare's Kitchen: Stories

The much anticipated new book from the acclaimed author of Other People’s Houses and Her First American—Lore Segal’s first major work of fiction in twenty years

Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror

A scathing portrait of contemporary executive power run amok, by the author of the original 1976 Church Committee Report on executive abuse

The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom

The author of Other People’s Children joins with other experts to examine the relationship between language and power in the classroom

The Studs Terkel Interviews: Film and Theater

PAPERBACK An elegant new edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winner’s “richly entertaining”(Publishers Weekly) conversations with the masters of stage and screen

Possessing the Secret of Joy: A Novel

PAPERBACK The stunning New York Times bestseller, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple, reissued in a handsome new edition with a brand-new preface

Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism

Eclectic thinkers, brought together by the bestselling author of City of Quartz, meditate on future worlds being created by unfettered capitalism

The North China Lover: A Novel

An elegant new paperback edition of one of Marguerite Duras’s most important books

The War: A Memoir

An elegant new paperback edition of one of Marguerite Duras’s most important books

Berenice Abbott: Changing New York

NEWLY REISSUED After being out of print for several years, a stunning book of photographs that was a Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Newsday best Book of the Year