Metropolitan Books

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  • The Once and Future Riot

    The Once and Future Riot

    $27.99

    From “our greatest living comics journalist” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), a revelatory investigation of deadly sectarian riots in Uttar Pradesh, India, that explores the mechanics, dynamics, mythologies, uses, and abuses of political violence everywhere Compared to other episodes of lethal Indian communal violence, the clashes in Uttar Pradesh in 2013, the Muzaffarnagar Riot, were a relatively…

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  • Paying the Land

    Paying the Land

    $22.99

    NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, THE BROOKLYN RAIL, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, POP MATTERS, COMICS BEAT, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLYFrom the “heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman” (The Economist), a masterful work of comics journalism about indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the natural…

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    Footnotes in Gaza

    $40.00

    Spanning 50 years, moving fluidly between one war and the next, “Footnotes inGaza”–Sacco’s most ambitious work to date–transforms a critical conflict ofour age into intimate and immediate experience.

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    People’s History of American Empire

    $30.00

    Shifting from world-shattering events to one family’s small revolutions, the story of America in the world is now told in vibrant comics form. This version opens with the events of 9/11 and then jumps back to explore the cycles of U.S. expansionism.

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  • Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey

    Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey

    $29.99

    Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Kirkus ReviewsWinner of the American Library Association’s Pura Belpré HonorWinner of the Society of Illustrators Gold MedalWinner of Pop Culture Classroom’s Excellence in Graphic Literature Award for Adult NonfictionFrom “America’s illustrator in chief” (Fast Company), a stunning graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, coming…

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    Paying the Land

    $30.99

    NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, THE BROOKLYN RAIL, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, POP MATTERS, COMICS BEAT, AND PUBLISHERS WEEKLYFrom the “heir to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman” (The Economist), a masterful work of comics journalism about indigenous North America, resource extraction, and our debt to the natural…

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    Verax: The True History of Whistleblowers, Drone Warfare, and Mass Surveillance: A Graphic Novel

    $31.99

    From a prize-winning journalist and the co-author of the best-selling Zahra’s Paradise, a sweeping graphic history of electronic surveillance from 9/11 to the latest drone strike. 9/11 not only marked the worst domestic terror attack in U.S. history, but also unleashed electronic spying by the government on a massive worldwide scale. In a wholly original…

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