Atlantic Monthly Press imprint: 271 books
Over Time
My Life as a Sportswriter
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
A New York Times bestseller: The “entertaining” memoir by the legendary American sportswriter (Chicago Tribune).
Frank Deford joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, and over the following decades became one of the most beloved figures in sports journalism—renowned for everything from his...
by Lily Tuck
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
“Tuck’s prose is elegant.” — New York Times Book Review
Lily Tuck’s critically-lauded, bestselling I Married You for Happiness was hailed by the Boston Globe as “an artfully crafted still life of one couple’s marriage.” In her singular new novel Sisters, Tuck gives a very different...
Cobra
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
A riveting thriller from the acclaimed “King of South African crime” and the author of Blood Safari: “Deon Meyer is one of the unsung masters” (Michael Connelly).
Deon Meyer is a world-class writer whose page-turning thrillers probe the social and racial complexities of his native country....
Liberty's First Crisis
Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
“Slack engagingly reveals how the Federalist attack on the First Amendment almost brought down the Republic . . . An illuminating book of American history.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
In 1798, with the United States in crisis, President John Adams and the Federalists in control of...
by Andrew Keen
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Keen’s previous book, The Internet Is Not the Answer, was widely praised by the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Financial Times, and Economist, among others, and chosen as a best book of the year by Kazuo Ishiguro in the New Statesman.
As consensus builds around the problems caused...
First to Fly
The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille, the American Heroes Who Flew for France in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
“The compelling story of the squadron of adventurous young American pilots who were among the first to engage in air combat.” —Tampa Bay Times
In First to Fly, lauded historian Charles Bracelen Flood draws on rarely seen primary sources to tell the story of the daredevil Americans of...
Blitzkrieg
Myth, Reality, and Hitler’s Lightning War: France 1940
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
A “masterly account” of the juggernaut offensive that conquered France—but also marked the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany in World War II (Kirkus Reviews).
In the spring of 1940, the German forces launched an attack on France that combined superb intelligence, cutting edge strategy,...
Thomas Cromwell
The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
“An exceptional and compelling biography about one of the Tudor Age’s most complex and controversial figures.” —Alison Weir
Thomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power. As King Henry VIII’s right-hand man, Cromwell was...
by Lily King
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
**A New York Times Bestseller
Winner of the 2014 Kirkus Prize
Winner of the 2014 New England Book Award for Fiction
A Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
A Best Book of the Year for:
New York Times Book Review, Time, NPR, Washington Post, Entertainment...
Searching for Zion
The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
From Jerusalem to Ghana to Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, a woman reclaims her history in a “beautifully written and thought-provoking” memoir (Dave Eggers, author of A Hologram for the King and Zeitoun).
A biracial woman from a country still divided along racial lines, Emily Raboteau never...
The Finish
The Killing of Osama bin Laden
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
New York Times bestseller: The true behind-the-scenes story of the manhunt for the 9/11 mastermind is “a page-turner” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune).
From the author of Black Hawk Down and Hue 1968, this is a gripping account of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. With access to key sources, Mark...
Handel's Bestiary
In Search of Animals in Handel's Operas
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
A “real tour de force” exploring the mythic history of animals in Handel’s operas complete with illustrations and audio recordings of the composer’s arias (News—Austria).
When New York Times–bestselling novelist Donna Leon isn’t writing her Commissario Guido Brunetti mysteries,...
Generations
A Century of Women Speak about Their Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
“This is the first book to show the sweeping change among American women in this century, and to do so in an irresistible, intimate, and popular way.” —Gloria Steinem
The women in this landmark work of oral history are from diverse ethnic, geographic, and social backgrounds, and they tell...
by Val McDermid
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The bestselling “Queen of Crime reigns again” when a profiler and an ex-cop investigate the suspicious deaths of women targeted by Internet trolls (Independent, UK).
From the international bestselling author of The Mermaids Singing and The Wire in the Blood comes the ninth installment of her...