Atlantic Monthly Press imprint: 271 books
The Black Calhouns
From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
“A history cum memoir by Lena Horne’s daughter tells the story of her forebears . . . eloquently conveys . . . how politics and prejudice can shape a family.” —The New Yorker
In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley—daughter of actress Lena Horne—delves deep into her family history,...
by Robert Coles
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
In this searching, vivid inquiry Robert Coles shows how children struggle with questions of moral choice. Bringing to life the voices of children from a rich diversity of backgrounds, he explores their reactions to movies and stories, their moral conduct, their conversations and relationships with friends...
Lingo
Around Europe in Sixty Languages
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Six thousand years. Sixty languages. One “brisk and breezy” whirlwind armchair tour of Europe “bulg[ing] with linguistic trivia” (The Wall Street Journal).
Take a trip of the tongue across the continent in this fascinating, hilarious and highly edifying exploration of the many ways...
All the Trouble in the World
The Lighter Side of Overpopulation, Famine, Ecological Disaster, Ethnic Hatred, Plague, and Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author takes an “unfailingly funny” look at global problems and offers his own political perspective (The Washington Times).
In this volume, the political humorist and former National Lampoon editor-in-chief attacks fashionable worries—all those terrible...
Toward the Setting Sun
John Ross, the Cherokees, and the Trail of Tears
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
“Richly detailed and well-researched,” this story of one Native American chief’s resistance to American expansionism “unfolds like a political thriller” (Publishers Weekly).
Toward the Setting Sun chronicles one of the most significant but least explored periods in American history—the...
by Mark Billingham
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
On an island off the Welsh coast, Inspector Thorne faces a sadistic adversary who’ll “certainly make your skin crawl” (The New York Times Book Review).
Who’d trust a depraved killer like Stuart Nicklin? Tom Thorne, the DI who put him away, has to. Nicklin has promised to bring closure...
Don't Vote
It Just Encourages the Bastards
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
“[A] merciless but often humorous look at the shortcomings of American politics” by the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Parliament of Whores (Booklist).
Don’t Vote: It Just Encourages the Bastards is a brilliant, disturbing, hilarious, and sobering look at why politics and politicians...
by Aminatta Forna
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
“[A] luminous tale of passion and betrayal” set in the post-colonial and civil war eras of Sierra Leone (The New York Times).
Winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book
As a decade of civil war and political unrest comes to a devastating close, three men must reconcile...
The Hired Man
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
An award-winning Scottish and Sierra Leonean novelist “brilliantly portrays the atmosphere” of Croatia in this haunting tale of war, history, and secrets (The Guardian).
Visitors are not common in the small Croatian village of Gost, so Duro is surprised to see a strange car pull up to a...
Rez Life
An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
A prize-winning writer offers “an affecting portrait of his childhood home, Leech Lake Indian Reservation, and his people, the Ojibwe” (The New York Times).
A member of the Ojibwe of northern Minnesota, David Treuer grew up on Leech Lake Reservation, but was educated in mainstream America....
Empire's Crossroads
A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
A “wide-ranging, vivid” narrative history of one of the most coveted and complex regions of the world: the Caribbean (The Observer).
Ever since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected...
The Age of the Horse
An Equine Journey Through Human History
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A “superb” account of the enduring connection between humans and horses—“Full of the sort of details that get edited out of more traditional histories” (The Economist).
Fifty-six million years ago, the earliest equid walked the earth—and beginning with the first-known horse-keepers...
To the New Owners
A Martha's Vineyard Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
**The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist “gives a familial face to the mystique of Martha’s Vineyard” in a memoir with “gentle humor and . . . elegiac sweetness” (Kirkus Reviews).
A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist**
In the 1970s, Madeleine Blais’s in-laws purchased...
Requiem
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
A Washington Post Notable Book: A Japanese Canadian man is haunted by childhood memories of WWII internment camps in this “evocative and cinematic tale” (Maclean’s).
In 1942, in retaliation for the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Canadian government removes young Bin Okuma and his family from...