Counterpoint imprint: 558 books
An Extravagant Hunger
The Passionate Years of M. F. K. Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
A “focused, smart, and engaging” look at the turbulent private life of the pioneering food writer who taught America the art of eating well (Publishers Weekly).
In An Extravagant Hunger, the turning points and casual strolls of M.F.K. Fisher’s life are unwrapped and savored. From the...
The Silk Road
Taking the Bus to Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
From an acclaimed travel writer comes a contemporary journey of historic riches from China to Pakistan along the northern route of the Silk Road.
Millennia older than California’s Camino Real, and perhaps even a few years older than the roads of the Roman Empire, the Silk Road is a network of...
Hitler's Pawn
The Boy Assassin and the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Herschel’s story is not really about another victim among six million victims. It’s about a naïve but intense kid suddenly trapped in the spotlight of world politics, and moreover world politics on the edge. It is about fame and obscurity. About the fall of France, and the first phase of World...
Bubblegum and Kipling
Selected and Introduced by Andre Dubus III
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
These beautifully connected stories follow the adolescent exploits of protagonist Jerry Gordon throughout the American Southwest. Jerry’s coming-of-age episodes find him seducing an innocent girl from the neighborhood, roping his first rodeo, garnering the aid of his older brother in a boyhood fight,...
The Map of Enough
One Woman's Search for Place
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Molly Caro May grew up as part of a nomadic family, one proud of their international sensibilities, a tribe that never settled in one place for very long. Growing up moving from foreign country to foreign country, just like her father and grandfather, she became attached to her identity as a global...
Criminals
My Family's Life on Both Sides of the Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Moving and unexpected, this first nonfiction offering by Robert Anthony Siegel is the literary equivalent of The Royal Tenenbaums
Essays from this collection have won awards and been and prestigiously published, including: "Sean" in The Harvard Review, which won a Pushcart Prize;...
by David Hinton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
This ancient text records the teachings of Mencius (4th c. B.C.E.), the second originary sage in the Confucian tradition which has shaped Chinese civilization for over two thousand years. In a culture that makes no distinction between those realms we call the heart and the mind, Mencius was the great...
Our Sustainable Table
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
In this collection of thirteen provocative essays, Wendell Berry discusses the pleasures of eating. Gretel Ehrlich describes her struggle to produce clean, lean beef on her ranch in Wyoming. Frances Moore Lappe sets for her vision of a system that is environmentally, economically, and culturally sustainable....
Terrarium
New and Selected Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
**Shortlisted for the Pacific Northwest Book Award
"Urgent, unnerving and tightly packed short fiction that covers enough ground for a library of novels." —The New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice**
Valerie Trueblood's writing has been praised by The New York Times as "an exercise...
The Ecology of Wisdom
Writings by Arne Naess
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
A founder of the Deep Ecology Movement, Arne Naess' has produced articles on environmentalism that have provided unmatched inspiration for ecologists, philosophers, and activists worldwide. This collection amasses a definitive group of Naess' most important works in which he calls for nonviolent,...
by Joanna Bourke
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
From the author of The Story of Pain. “This deeply scholarly work is lively and challenging in equal measure, and rewarding throughout” (The Boston Globe).
In 1872, a woman known only as “An Earnest Englishwoman” published a letter titled “Are Women Animals?” in which she protested...
Goddess of Love Incarnate
The Life of Stripteuse Lili St. Cyr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Lili St. Cyr was, in the words of legendary reporter Mike Wallace, the highest paid stripteaser in America.” Wallace was so fascinated by Lili that out of all the presidents and celebrities he interviewed over a long career, towards the end of his life, she was the one he remained fixated on....
Alice in Bed
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
“[A] literary feast” of a novel that “portrays the exciting, frustrating, and perplexing private life of bed-ridden Alice [James]” (Publishers Weekly).
“In her mesmerizing first novel, Hooper enters the individualist mind-set of the enigmatic” Alice James. The brilliant 19th century...
Dogen's Genjo Koan
Three Commentaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The classic Buddhist text in three engaging new translations, with commentary from contemporary Zen masters.
One of the greatest religious practitioners and philosophers of the East, Eihei Dogen Zenji (1200–1253) is today thought of as the founder of the Soto school of Zen. A deep thinker...