Counterpoint imprint: 558 books
by Michael Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
A “captivating” journey through the landscape, history, and diverse cultures of one of the world’s most majestic mountain ranges: “A modern travel classic” (Jon Lee Anderson).
For centuries, the Andes of South America have caught the imagination of travelers, inspiring fear and wonder....
The Los Angeles Diaries
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
A man overcomes the trappings of his family’s history of suicide and addiction in this “grimly exquisite memoir that reads like a noir novel” (Publishers Weekly, Best Book of the Year).
“One of the toughest memoirs I’ve ever read, at once spare and startlingly, admirably unsparing....
Ghosts of Afghanistan
The Haunted Battleground
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
“Fine modern history . . . [Steele] demolishes some Western myths about Afghanistan that betray short memories and government spin.” —The Economist
A masterful blend of graphic reporting, illuminating interviews, and insightful analysis. Ghosts of Afghanistan is the first account of Afghanistan’s...
Lost in Wonder
Imagining Science and Other Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010
The splendors of science, delightfully demystified.
How do we make sense of the modern world? Science is a profoundly affecting aspect of contemporary life, and yet the gulf between experts and everyone else is widening. Colette Brooks bridges the gap by playing the role of curious layperson,...
Suspicion Nation
The Inside Story of the Trayvon Martin Injustice and Why We Continue to Repeat It
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Many thought the election of our first African American president put an end to the conversation about race in this country, and that America had moved into a post-racial era of equality and opportunity. Then, on the night of February 26, 2012, a black seventeen-year-old boy walking to a friend’s...
Shadow Work
The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
With the exception of sleep, humans spend more of their lifetimes on work than any other activity. It is central to our economy, society, and the family. It underpins our finances and our sense of meaning in life. Given the overriding importance of work, we need to recognize a profound transformation...
The More I Owe You
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2010
The author of the acclaimed memoir Mother and Son creates an intimate portrait of poet Elizabeth Bishop in this “sensitive and engrossing” debut novel (Publishers Weekly)****.
“A portrait of the artist as a human—a woman of desire, contradiction, and need.” —A. M. Homes, author of The...
The Robber of Memories
A River Journey Through Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
“An adventure story and a travel narrative, but also an excursion into memory itself.” —Booklist
When travel writer Michael Jacobs began traversing the Magdalena, a river that courses through the heart of Colombia, he was determined to leave modern conveniences aside—with the exception...
Anesthesia
The Gift of Oblivion and the Mystery of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
"An obsessive, mystical, terrifying, and even phantasmagorical exploration of anesthesia’s shadowy terra incognita." —The New Yorker
Anesthetize: to render insensible
First there’s the injection, then the countdown—and next thing you know, you’re awake. Anesthesia:...
End of the Rope
Mountains, Marriage, and Motherhood
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In June 2017, the media and the outdoor adventuring community were abuzz with news that Alex Honnold climbed Yosemite's El Capitan without a rope. Every year, we hear stories about the men who climb Everest, Anapurna, and other legendary peaks. End of the Rope brings to light the story of a woman...
This River
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
“Continues where Brown’s first memoir, The Los Angeles Diaries, left off. It’s molten stuff, the story of his efforts to control his river of rage.” —Los Angeles Times
Award-winning author James Brown gained a cult following after chronicling his turbulent childhood and spiraling drug...
Gifted
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
"[A] remarkable story." —The New York Times Book Review
Henry Fielder, solitary and unmoored in his thirties, runs into an old lover and finds himself ready to tell the story he has harbored for two decades. He is fifteen, in rural western Oregon, enduring a year of sorrows. His...
Kore
On Sickness, the Sick and the Search for the Soul of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
“An eminent Polish physician reflects on his lifetime practice of medicine . . . A profound celebration of the human spirit.” —Kirkus Reviews
There is a grand tradition of physicians who are also great writers and philosophers. When his first book, Catharsis, was published in English,...
by Wendell Berry
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
An impassioned, thoughtful, and fearless essay on the effects of racism on the American identity by one of our country’s most humane literary voices.
Acclaimed as “one of the most humane, honest, liberating works of our time” (The Village Voice), The Hidden Wound is a book-length essay...