Metropolitan Books imprint: 234 books
Mad Scenes and Exit Arias
The Death of the New York City Opera and the Future of Opera in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
From the Wall Street Journal's opera critic, a wide-ranging narrative history of how and why the New York City Opera went bankrupt—and what it means for the future of the arts
In October 2013, the arts world was rocked by the news that the New York City Opera—“the people’s opera”—had...
Prairie Fires
The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
The first comprehensive historical biography of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the beloved author of the Little House on the Prairie books
Millions of...
Our Harsh Logic
Israeli Soldiers' Testimonies from the Occupied Territories, 2000-2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Israeli soldiers speak out for the first time about the truth of the Palestinian occupation, in "one of the most important books on Israel/Palestine in this generation" (The New York Review of Books)
The very name of the Israel Defense Forces—which many Israelis speak of as "the...
by Sarah Churchwell
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2005
A brilliant investigation into the debates surrounding Marilyn Monroe's life and the cultural attitudes that her legend reveals
There are many Marilyns: sex goddess and innocent child, crafty manipulator and dumb blonde, liberated woman and tragic loner. Indeed, the writing and rewriting of...
by Catherine Merridale
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
One of The Economist's Best Books of the Year
A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin’s fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and forever changed the world
In April 1917, as the Russian Tsar Nicholas II’s abdication...
Detroit City Is the Place to Be
The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners,...
by Susan Faludi
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash, comes In the Darkroom, an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger...
Kill Anything That Moves
The Real American War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Based on classified documents and first-person interviews, a startling history of the American war on Vietnamese civilians
Americans have long been taught that events such as the notorious My Lai massacre were isolated incidents in the Vietnam War, carried out by "a few bad apples."...
Devil's Game
How the United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The first complete account of America's most
dangerous foreign policy miscalculation: sixty years of support for Islamic fundamentalism
Devil's Game is the gripping story of America's misguided efforts, stretching across decades, to dominate the strategically vital Middle East by courting and...
The Limits of Power
The End of American Exceptionalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
From an acclaimed conservative historian and former military officer, a bracing call for a pragmatic confrontation with the nation's problems
The Limits of Power identifies a profound triple crisis facing America: the economy, in remarkable disarray, can no longer be fixed by relying on expansion...
The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget
Murder and Memory in Uganda
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
From a new star of American journalism, a riveting murder mystery that reveals the forces roiling today's Africa
From Rwanda to Sierra Leone, African countries recovering from tyranny and war are facing an impossible dilemma: to overlook past atrocities for the sake of peace or to seek catharsis...
Primo Levi
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Primo Levi, author of Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table, wrote books that have been called the essential works of humankind. Yet he lived an unremarkable existence, remaining until his death in the house in which he'd been born; managing a paint and varnish factory for thirty years; and...
The Europeans
Three Lives and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2019
From the “master of historical narrative” (Financial Times), a dazzling, richly detailed, panoramic work—the first to document the genesis of a continent-wide European culture.
The nineteenth century in Europe was a time of unprecedented artistic achievement. It was also the first age...
The Trouble with Diversity
How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2007
A brilliant assault on our obsession with every difference except the one that really matters—the difference between rich and poor
If there's one thing Americans agree on, it's the value of diversity. Our corporations vie for slots in the Diversity Top 50, our universities brag about minority...