Just Us An American Conversation

Claudia Rankine’s Citizen changed the conversation—Just Us urges all of us into it As everyday white supremacy becomes ...

At home and in government, contemporary America finds itself riven by a culture war in which aggression and defensiveness alike ...

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A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of Citizen The ...

* Finalist for the National Book Award in Poetry * * Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry * Finalist for ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA POETRY AWARD POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION Flèche (the French word for 'arrow') is an offensive ...

"Here, available for the first time in the UK, is the book in which Claudia Rankine first developed the 'American ...

"Before the discovery of quarks, we hadn't imagined anything smaller than protons and neutrons. Are quarks the end of the ...

Poems are social. They reach out, however crookedly, to another person, however imperfectly imagined. And sometimes they not only embody ...

Poetry. African American Studies. "Claudia Rankine is a fiercely gifted young poet. Intelligence, a curiosity and hunger for understanding like ...

Frank, fearless letters from poets of all colors, genders, classes about the material conditions under which their art is made....

Ambrose Zephyr and his wife Zappora Ashkenazi (“Zipper”) have achieved a happy and balanced life together. She is the yin ...

A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a ...

Bringing to life a legendary but little-known aspect of Irish history, this is a serious but by no means solemn ...

Based on the New York Times bestseller The Body Is Not an Apology, this is an action guide to help ...

A lush, disorienting novel, The Caretaker takes no prisoners as it explores the perils of devotion and the potentially lethal ...

Looks at the history of African American women in science and includes a collection of interviews with notable black women ...

In this exceptional cultural history, Atlantic Senior Editor Ronald Brownstein—“one of America's best political journalists (The Economist)—tells the ...

A cult classic, adapted into a film starring Christian Bale. Is evil something you are? Or is it something you ...

It's late summer 1793, and the streets of Philadelphia are abuzz with mosquitoes and rumors of fever. Down near the docks, ...

One of the most magnetic and esteemed poets in today’s literary landscape, Patricia Smith fearlessly confronts the tyranny against ...

Based on an article by Pulitzer Prize–winning reporters, the fascinating results of an important nationwide conversation about guns: Can ...

From this New York Times bestselling author comes a collection of ambitious, remarkably erudite essays on art, literature, culture, and ...

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY TIME , NPR, INSTYLE, AND GOOD HOUSEKEEPING “...

“Anne Lamott is my Oprah.” —Chicago Tribune The New York Times bestseller from the author of Dusk, Night, Dawn, Almost ...

Shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 'This debut collection is the modern poetry we need to read ...

A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill Town is an American story, a human predicament, and a moral wake-up call that ...

An elegiac and moving meditation on the ways in which we witness "bodies" of grief and healing. Poems and photographs ...

The author of the best-selling The Middle Place presents an account of her perspectives on motherhood, which have been shaped ...

The remarkable life of Paul Robeson, quintessential Harlem Renaissance man: scholar, all-American, actor, activist, and firebrand Born the son of ...

Cult favorite Letters to Wendy's has sold thousands of copies through web, direct and special orders, and will appeal to ...

Ilya Kaminsky’s astonishing parable in poems asks us, What is silence? Deaf Republic opens in an occupied country in ...

In a dazzling collection of stories, the New York Times–bestselling author of The History of Love, National Book Award ...

Racial tension in America has become a recurring topic of conversation in politics, the media, and everyday life. There are ...

Instant New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence 2020 New England Society Book Award Winner for Fiction “...

This poetry collection by the acclaimed author of Citizen presents an “inexhaustibly complex, varied, and . . . grimly inventive” meditation on maternity (...

In a world without political freedom, personal freedom and precious little faith in anything comes a mysterious man in a ...

The hidden brain is the voice in our ear when we make the most important decisions in our lives—but ...

LA Times winner for The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose A New York Times bestseller A New York Times ...

“In The Third Daughter, Talia Carner ably illuminates a little-known piece of history: the sex trafficking of young women from ...