Biography & Memoir

Limited by Body Habitus

An American Fat Story

Jennifer Renee Blevins

“While many readers will be familiar with her argument that fat people are unfairly pathologized, her father’s medical records (used with his permission) offer new and concrete examples of how discrimination against fat patients occurs at the level of grammar, how those tiny building blocks add up to a wall of disparagement.” —Times Literary Supplement

Distributed for Autumn House Press

2019 192 p. 6 x 81/2 295 Paper ISBN: 978-1-938769-40-5 $17.95

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A Small Door Set in Concrete

One Woman’s Story of Challenging Borders in Israel/Palestine

Ilana Hammerman

“Israeli journalist, translator, and editor Hammerman’s memoir of life along the Israel-Palestine border is a fascinating view into the region’s ongoing tensions in the early 2000s.”—Booklist

“Above all, Hammerman shows how the Occupation works to cast Palestinians as ‘creatures of a different species,’ rather than ‘normal human beings.’ Her remarkable book is a fierce corrective to this.” —Times Literary Supplement

2019 296 p. 51/2 x 81/2 296 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-66631-0 $25.00

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Assassin of Youth

A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger’s War on Drugs

Alexandra Chasin

“This ain’t your grandpa’s reefer madness but instead a swirling, energetic, decidedly offbeat history of a man and a time history has largely forgotten.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Chasin paces the trail from temperance to today, when nearly half the inmates of US jails are incarcerated for drug offences. A sorry tale of how one man’s racial prejudice and predilection for prohibition led to a colossal policy failure.”—Nature

2016 352 p. 6 x 9 75 halftones 297 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-27697-7 $35.00

Your Price: $11.00 Simone Veil

Simone Veil was one of France’s most beloved public figures, most admired for her personal and political courage. Her memoir is a sincere and candid account of an extraordinary life and career, reflecting both her humanity and her determination to improve social standards at home and maintain economic and political stability in Europe. In the wake of her passing in 2017, this translation of her memoir stands as a fitting tribute to an unparalleled life of survival, selflessness, and unwavering public service.

Distributed for Haus Publishing

2018 298 p. 5 x 8 12 halftones 298 Paper ISBN: 978-1-910376-96-6 $19.95

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Anarchy’s Brief Summer

The Life and Death of Buenaventura Durruti

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

This book brings anarchism to life by focusing on the charismatic leader Buenaventura Durruti, who became a key figure in the Spanish Civil War. The basis of the book is a compilation of texts linked by Enzensberger’s own assessment in a series of glosses that illuminate the political contradictions of the Spanish Revolution.

“Enzensberger’s collection of personal testimonies creates a vivid portrait of Durruti as a revolutionary.”—On the Seawall

Distributed for Seagull Books

2019 264 p. 6 x 9 299 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-85742-600-0 $30.00

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Music at Midnight

The Life and Poetry of George Herbert

John Drury

“Being an English country minister has inspired many writers, none of them more lapidary, precise, witty and surprising than George Herbert, the frail intellectual who preached to the parish of Bemerton from 1630 to 1633. An account of an Anglican priest and his poetry that will probably never be bettered.” —Economist

2014 416 p. 6 x 9 24 color plates, 28 halftones 300 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-13444-4 $35.00

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Robert Schumann

The Life and Work of a Romantic Composer

Martin Geck

“A fine biography. . . . This is the most balanced account of Schumann’s life and work for more than a generation, one that makes us want to re-listen to Schumann’s music, knowing better the man behind it.”—Wall Street Journal

2012 320 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones, 8 line drawings 301 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-28469-9 $35.00

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Critical Lives from Reaktion Books

Critical Lives is a major series of short critical biographies. Each book is approximately 200 pages in length, includes about 30 halftones, and measures 5 x 8.

Langston Hughes

W. Jason Miller

302 2020 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-195-5 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Thomas Mann

Herbert Lehnert and Eva Wessell

303 2019 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-081-1 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Joseph Beuys

Claudia Mesch

304 2017 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-735-0 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Virginia Woolf

Ira Nadel

305 2016 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-666-7 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Georgia O’Keeffe

Nancy J. Scott

306 2015 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-428-1 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Susan Sontag

Jerome Boyd Maunsell

307 2014 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-288-1 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Fidel Castro

Nick Caistor

308 2013 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-090-0 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Mahatma Gandhi

Douglas Allen

309 2011 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-865-4 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00

Simone Weil

Palle Yourgrau

310 2011 Paper ISBN: 978-1-86189-798-5 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00