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We are thrilled to be publishing U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren's new book this coming April.
https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-new-york-campaigns-elizabeth-warren-massachusetts-c3a133a3bd23d5a0dd08b9a36bff368c
NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a book coming out about six key experiences and perspectives. The title should be familiar to those who have followed the Massachusetts Democrat's career:...
"If we’re serious about civilian control of the military — and we should be as citizens — then we ought to have a bona fide civilian in charge of the Pentagon."
Metropolitan author Andrew Bacevich for Democracy Now! on President-elect Joe Biden's nominee for defense secretary:
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/11/joe_biden_lloyd_austin_pentagon
Joe Biden’s nominee for defense secretary, retired four-star Army General Lloyd Austin, would make history as the first African American to lead the Pentagon if confirmed by the Senate. But Austin can only be confirmed if he secures a waiver from Congress due to laws designed to preserve the civil...
"It seems strange to me that people spoke so much of authoritarianism under Trump when what we’ve been seeing for years now, including the Trump years, is political impotence, the absence of political will. And without the left getting its act together, I don’t see that changing any time soon."
In case you missed Metropolitan author Corey Robin for Jewish Currents:
https://jewishcurrents.org/almost-the-complete-opposite-of-fascism/
A conversation with Corey Robin on the surprisingly weak presidency of Donald Trump
We are delighted that The New York Times Books has included both PAYING THE LAND (Joe Sacco) and WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD (Jake Halpern & Michael Sloan) in their list of the best graphic novels of 2020:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/books/review/best-graphic-novels.html?referringSource=articleShare
Our Graphic Content columnists pick their favorites from a year rich with visual storytelling.
We are so pleased that Kirkus Reviews has named SOMEWHERE IN THE UNKNOWN WORLD by Kao Kalia Yang a best book of 2020. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/best-of/2020/nonfiction/books/
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“The bus drivers never came before the bankers before.”
Metropolitan author Atul Gawande for The New Yorker on the challenges of vaccine rollout in a deeply divided society:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/atul-gawande-on-coronavirus-vaccines-and-prospects-for-ending-the-pandemic
The New Yorker staff writer, now a member of President-elect Biden’s COVID-19 advisory board, discusses when a vaccine might be ready for distribution, who should receive it, and whether eradicating the virus is possible.
This Saturday, December 5 at 11pm ET, tune in to BookTV on C-SPAN2 for Metropolitan author Astra Taylor's invigorating conversation with Angela Davis on the fight for democracy today. Haymarket Books https://www.c-span.org/video/?477137-1/author-discussion-democracy-america
Activist and writer Angela Davis and journalist Astra Taylor examined what is democracy and what it means today. This virtual event was sponsored by Haymarket Books and Jacobin magazine.
"It looked like a long face plant from the penthouse—except it wasn’t."
Metropolitan author Quinn Slobodian for New Statesman:
https://www.newstatesman.com/world/north-america/2020/12/donald-trump-once-more-walking-away-failure-profit
At the end of history, Donald Trump appeared to be going bankrupt. As the Cold War came to a bloodless finale on the rubble of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the tycoon was presiding over a dissolving empire. Having entered the club of billionaires a year or so earlier, by August 1990, Trump owed $3.2bn t...
"Sloan and Halpern deliver a story that fully inhabits its comics form, and breathes with an easy visual elegance."
This week, WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD is a The New York Times Books Editors' Choice:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/26/books/review/11-new-books-we-recommend-this-week.html
Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.
"To me, populism means a mass, multiracial coalition of workers coming together for economic democracy....It drove me crazy when people started using 'populism' as shorthand for racial demagoguery."
For The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine, Metropolitan authors Astra Taylor and Thomas Frank discuss Tom's scorching history of anti-populism, THE PEOPLE, NO:
https://www.thedigradio.com/podcast/anti-populism-with-thomas-frank/
Guest host Astra Taylor interviews Thomas Frank about his book The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism. From The Dig archives on populism: Universalizing American Liberty with Aziz Rana ...
We are so thrilled that The Guardian has named all three Metropolitan graphic novels of 2020—DRAGMAN by Steven Appleby, Joe Sacco's PAYING THE LAND, and WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD by Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan—to their best-of, year-end list:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/nov/28/best-comics-and-graphic-novels-of-2020
An award-winning tale of rival ice-cream sellers, a migrant Syrian family’s experiences of the US and a superhero in drag are just some of the highlights
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"Debt, [Graeber] wrote, is 'a promise corrupted by both math and violence.' What other types of promises might we make to one another and strive to honor? And, in order to do that, what promises might we have to renegotiate or refuse?"
Don't miss Astra Taylor's stellar essay on debt in The New Yorker:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/how-the-biden-administration-can-free-americans-from-student-debt
In the anthropologist David Graeber’s view, the balance sheet must periodically be wiped clean, to free us from debt as an economic burden and as an ideology that distorts our interactions.
So pleased that USA TODAY has named THE AGE OF ILLUSIONS by Andrew Bacevich a Best Book of 2020.
https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/entertainment/books/2020/02/19/best-books-2020-what-usa-todays-critics-loved-reading/4531064002/
These are the great new books that got ★★★½ and ★★★★ reviews from USA TODAY critics in 2020.
"Populism is a great thing, a hopeful thing. Populism is when ordinary people come together and work for economic democracy. That’s the definition of the word, and it's something that we should be aspiring to, not something that we should fear and stamp out.”
Metropolitan author Thomas Frank discusses his latest book THE PEOPLE, NO with Robert Scheer for Scheer Intelligence:
https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/scheer-intelligence/dont-believe-anything-you-were-told-about-populism
Thomas Frank examines the history of American populism, and how it was distorted by Democrats and co-opted by Republicans.
We are thrilled that The New York Times has named Elliott Currie's A PECULIAR INDIFFERENCE a Notable Book of 2020!
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/books/notable-books.html
The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review
"Long before I knew that I would become a writer, I was carrying the stories of other refugees with me."
A poetic conversation with Kao Kalia Yang and Feminist Book Club on Kalia's stunning new book, SOMEWHERE IN THE UNKNOWN WORLD:
https://www.feministbookclub.com/somewhere-in-the-unknown-world/
Kao Kalia Yang, author of the new collective refugee memoir Somewhere in the Unknown World, speaks with Feminist Book Club on this podcast episode.
Tonight, 7 PM EST, Quail Ridge Books hosts journalist Rob Christensen and Metropolitan author Thomas Frank in conversation on Frank's latest, THE PEOPLE NO, on the demonization of American populism. Sure to engage! Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/thomas-frank-the-people-no-tickets-126495666945
Rescheduled from Sept 24
"Mitch McConnell is not the president, and his influence must be diminished as much as possible, which will require Biden to do something not in his nature – fight Republicans."
Astra Taylor for The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/16/joe-biden-presidency-political-system
If Joe Biden is going to accomplish anything, we need to start thinking differently about power and our political system
"Brilliant."
—Boston Review
"Eye-opening."
—Kirkus Reviews
"Engrossing from beginning to end."
—Booklist
Warmest pub day congratulations to Monica Black and A DEMON-HAUNTED LAND!
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250225672
A revelatory counterhistory of postwar Germany, not as a reborn democracy but as a nation convulsed by apocalyptic visions, witchcraft trials, and supernatur...
This is tonight! At 7pm EST, join Metropolitan author Kao Kalia Yang and publisher of McSweeney's Amanda Uhle as they discuss Kalia's "delicate," "affecting," "essential" new book SOMEWHERE IN THE UNKNOWN WORLD. Hosted by Literati Bookstore: https://www.literatibookstore.com/event/home-literati-kao-kalia-yang-amanda-uhle
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At 4pm CST today, join Kao Kalia Yang, the International Rescue Committee, and Immigration History Research Center Archives at the University of Minnesota as they launch Kalia's gorgeous new book SOMEWHERE IN THE UNKNOWN WORLD, a collection of real refugee stories: https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc/events/book-launch-kao-kalia-yangs-somewhere-unknown-world
Join the IHRC and the International Rescue Committee to celebrate the launch of award-winning author Kao Kalia Yang’s new book Somewhere in the Unknown World: A Collective Refugee Memoir (Metropolitan Books, 2020.)
"If the blue wave has proved almost as illusionary as the blue wall four years ago, it is because centrist Democrats, as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren constantly warned during the primary debates, have refused to learn the lessons of 2016."
Metropolitan author Mike Davis for London Review of Books:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n22/mike-davis/short-cuts
Mainstream Democrats have had more than a generation to respond to the simple question: what will you do to increase job...
"It’s devastating to realize how many young women have been taken advantage of and felt powerless to do anything about it."
Metropolitan author Emily Ratajkowski in a statement to The New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/12/style/jonathan-leder-photographer-emily-ratajowski.html
Emily Ratajkowski accused the photographer Jonathan Leder of assault and using photos against her wishes. Other women say they have similar experiences.
Kao Kalia Yang's SOMEWHERE IN THE UNKNOWN WORLD "produced, for me, an enormous feeling of gratitude for America at its best. I don’t know of another book that is so timely for families to read together."
Such a nice piece in The Monticello Times!
https://www.hometownsource.com/monticello_times/opinion/columnists/great-new-book-produces-pride-and-empathy-for-america/article_5b2ec25e-252f-11eb-8d04-afdde403d76f.html
Think about a time when you felt most proud of the U.S. What produced that emotion? Was it a book, play, new law, election or invention? (Several people I questioned
Excited for this! Tonight, 5pm MT, Tattered Cover virtually hosts Metro author Kao Kalia Yang with acclaimed journalist Sarah Smarsh for a discussion of Kalia's just-published SOMEWHERE IN THE UNKNOWN WORLD, a collection of refugee stories that's "an essential book of poetic beauty and social witness." RSVP now: https://www.tatteredcover.com/event/live-stream-kao-kalia-yang-conversation-sarah-smarsh-somewhere-unknown-world
A Collection of Honest Stories from Refugees; A Memoir Book Talk All over this country, there are refugees. But beyond the headlines, few know who they are, how they live, or what they have lost. Although Minnesota is not known for its diversity, the state has welcomed more refugees per capita th...
"Superbly entertaining and vastly informative"
—Washington Post
"Much anticipated...impressively thorough"
—The New York Times Books
"Magisterial"
—The Guardian
We celebrate Orlando Figes's spectacular work of history THE EUROPEANS: THREE LIVES AND THE MAKING OF A COSMOPOLITAN CULTURE, out this week in paperback:
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781627792141
From the “master of historical narrative” (Financial Times), a dazzling, richly detailed, panoramic work—the first to document the genesis of a contine...
"Exceptional.... An important collection of voices and experiences." Nice to see SOMEWHERE IN THE UNKNOWN WORLD by Kao Kalia Yang (out now!) included in Ms. Magazine's Nov. 2020 Reads for the Rest of Us: https://msmagazine.com/2020/11/10/november-2020-reads-for-the-rest-of-us/
Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of books being published by writers from underrepresented groups. Enjoy these 20 books, in solidarity.
We're so pleased that THE HUNDRED YEARS' WAR ON PALESTINE by Rashid Khalidi won the 2020 Palestine Book Award in the academic category. (Middle East Monitor)
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20201106-winners-of-2020-palestine-book-awards-announced/
The winners of this year's Palestine Book Awards (PBA) were announced yesterday following another year of strong submissions. Judges sifted through 38 books covering a number of genres. Due to the c...
"Our country’s toboggan ride to hell will never stop until a Democratic president faces up to his party’s mistakes and brings to a halt the ignoble experiment of the last four decades. Should Joe Biden do that, he might be able to see that he has before him a moment of great Democratic possibility."
Metropolitan author Thomas Frank for The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/07/trump-defeat-election
Trump’s defeat is a time for celebrating – let us praise God for victory. But let us also show some humility in our triumph, and think about how we got here
"How do societies that commit monstrous atrocities recover from them?....Chock-full of colorful anecdotes and charismatic figures, A Demon-Haunted Land not only offers a brilliant rethinking of postwar German history, but also asks us to see the irrational as an integral part of modernity."
Boston Review on the spooky new book by Monica Black (out next week!):
https://bostonreview.net/politics/samuel-clowes-huneke-when-democracy-ails-magic-thrives
West German witchcraft trials after World War II reveal how political rupture can fuel magical thinking. What lessons might we draw for our own age of QAnon conspiracies, anti-vaccination, and strange COVID-19 cures?
We're thrilled—and relieved—at yesterday's news that President-elect Joe Biden has named stalwart Metropolitan author Atul Gawande to the newly-formed, much-needed Covid-19 task force.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/09/us/joe-biden-trump
Senator Mitch McConnell did not contradict President Trump’s false claims that the election was stolen from him, and the attorney general gave prosecutors authority to investigate claims of voter fraud. President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. unveiled the 13 members his coronavirus task force.
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"August Crimp has a secret life. When he puts on a dress, he can fly." We are so pleased to announce that Dragman by heroic and fabulous @Steven Appleby is on sale in the U.S. TODAY! Order your copy now to soar alongside an inspiring and truly new superhero. #countdowntocrimp
"All of a sudden you have not just the license but the obligation to lie, conceal, dissemble, and dissimulate." Find out why Edward Snowden chose to tell the truth. http://bit.ly/permanentrecord
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