Bold Type Books imprint: 172 books
The Home That Was Our Country
A Memoir of Syria
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Alia Malek weaves a lyrical narrative around the history of her family's apartment building in the heart of Damascus, the many lives that crossed in the stairwell, and how the fates of her neighbors reflect the fate of her country.
At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to...
The Hour of Sunlight
One Palestinian's Journey from Prisoner to Peacemaker
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
As a teenager in Palestine, Sami al Jundi had one ambition: overthrowing Israeli occupation. With two friends, he began to build a bomb to use against the police. But when it exploded prematurely, killing one of his friends, al Jundi was caught and sentenced to ten years in prison.
It was in...
The Noir Forties
The American People From Victory to Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
From one of our finest cultural historians, The Noir Forties is a vivid reexamination of America's postwar period, that age of anxiety” characterized by the dissipation of victory dreams, the onset of the Red Scare, and a nascent resistance to the growing Cold War consensus.
Richard Lingeman...
The Dead Yard
A Story of Modern Jamaica
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Named the Dolman Travel Book of the Year, The Dead Yard paints an unforgettable portrait of modern Jamaica. Since independence, Jamaica has gradually become associated with twin images--a resort-style travel Eden for foreigners and a new kind of hell for Jamaicans, a society where gangs control the...
The American Dream
Walking in the Shoes of Carnies, Arms Dealers, Immigrant Dreamers, Pot Farmers, and Christian Believ
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2008
For some, the American Dream is a pre-fab house in the suburbs with 2.5 kids and a two-week vacation at the end of the year. To others, it is working a push fruit cart in Oakland in order to put food on the family's table in Oaxaca. In The American Dream Harmon Leon draws upon his experiences of adopting...
In Days to Come
A New Hope for Israel
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018
"The first childhood memory I have of my father is linked to the destruction of empires--the collapse of a world order that had once seemed eternal."
So begins Avraham Burg's authoritative and deeply personal inquiry into the ambitions and failures of Israel and Judaism worldwide.
Born...
Let Fury Have the Hour
Joe Strummer, Punk, and the Movement that Shook the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Joe Strummer's untimely death at the age of fifty in December 2002 took from us one of the truly unique voices of modern music. The quintessential Rude Boy, punker, rebel musician, artist and activist, Strummer wrote some of the most important and influential music of the last century including "Guns...
by Gary Younge
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
From those who insist that Barack Obama is Muslim to the European legislators who go to extraordinary lengths to ban items of clothing worn by a tiny percentage of their populations, Gary Younge shows, in this fascinating, witty, and provocative examination of the enduring legacy and obsession with...
A Heartbeat and a Guitar
Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A Heartbeat and a Guitar tells of the collaboration of two distinct yet connected musicians-iconoclast Johnny Cash and pioneering folk artist Peter La Farge-and the album they created, Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian. It also tells of the unique personal, political, and cultural struggles...
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching
A Young Black Man's Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice
How do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It...
Ask Me About My Uterus
A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir advocating for recognition of women's health issues
In the fall of 2010, Abby Norman's strong dancer's body dropped forty pounds and gray hairs began to sprout from her temples. She was repeatedly...
Empire of Illusion
The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
A prescient book that forecast the culture that gave rise to Trump -- a society beholden to empty spectacle and obsession with image at the expense of reality, reason, and truth.
An instant bestseller, Empire of Illusion is a striking and unsettling exploration of illusion and fantasy in contemporary...
Stripping Bare the Body
Politics Violence War
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
For the past two decades, Mark Danner has reported from Latin America, Haiti, the Balkans, and the Middle East. His perceptive, award-winning dispatches have not only explored the real consequences of American engagement with the world, but also the relationship between political violence and power....
Murder City
Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad.
In Murder City, Charles Bowden-one of the few journalists who spent...