Collection: Books

Marking Lévy Gorvy's first solo exhibition with acclaimed conceptual artist and philosopher Adrian Piper (born 1948), this focused presentation includes examples from The Mythic Being series (1973-75), It's...

A compulsively readable sports narrative by senior NFL writer for ESPN's The Undefeated (now Andscape), Jason Reid, chronicling both the history of Black players in...

An Asian American basketball star walks into a gym. No one recognizes him, but everyone stares anyway. It is the start of a joke but...

Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. Because his father has lost his job, Eniola spends his days running...

Another storm is on the horizon for the Reynolds women. And the only way out is to go through it. Good things never happen in...

An intimate minimalism: McArthur Binion's permutational uses of abstraction, collage and autobiography Chicago-based painter McArthur Binion (born 1946) combines collage, drawing and painting to create...

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow—comes a haunting masterpiece, sure...

A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community's ultimate resilience, told through a cast of characters whose lives illuminate the dramatic rise...

  This expansive collection sets the stage for the next generation of Hip Hop scholarship as we approach the fiftieth anniversary of the movement's origins....

An exploration of the ways that Black intellectuals arrived at a critique of Western knowledge  Joshua Myers considers the work of thinkers who broke with...

A Calabash of Cowries: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Times is a collection of tales featuring the Orishas and the wonders of the natural world. Suitable for...

A groundbreaking look at the history of transgender representation in TV and film, by an of-the-moment and in-demand culture reporter.We See Each Other is a personal...

"Delia Cai fully renders the uneasy marriage between past and present. Central Places is honest about the strangeness and revelation of returning home." -- Raven Leilani, New York Times bestselling...

You have Big Dreams for living a Big Life, but you have one Big Problem--you don't trust yourself. Learn how to let go of that...

  An extraordinary and unforgettable short story collection about community, home, betrayal, and forgiveness--from a writer whose "spellbinding, buoyant"* storytelling will break your heart as...

From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who deserves...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of While Justice Sleeps returns with another riveting and intricately plotted thriller, in which a blackmailed federal judge, a secret court and...

Toby Fleishman thought he knew what to expect when he and his wife of almost fifteen years separated: weekends and every other holiday with the...

Originally published in 1990; first published in Routledge Classics, 2008. In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed...

Hard-hitting, thought-provoking, and inspiring, Conversations in Black offers sage wisdom for navigating race in a radically divisive America, and, with help from his mighty team of black...

A funny and affirming illustrated guide, in New Yorker cartoonist Sarah Akinterinwa's signature style, that offers a unique approach to finding love (or not). This illustrated dating...

There is no one way to be transgender.   Trans Bodies, Trans Selves is a revolutionary resource--a comprehensive, reader-friendly guide for transgender people, with each chapter...