Collection: Classics

"I found these stories both heartening. . . and terrifying as the expression of a racial hatred that has never ceased to grow and gets...

A story of love and community, written by the hand of Zora Neale Hurston, one of the 20th century’s greatest authors, and a woman who...

Actress and filmmaker Rebecca Hall presents Passing, Nella Larsen’s classic novel of the Harlem Renaissance.After a chance reunion in a Chicago hotel, Irene Redfield discovers that...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. We...

“African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni Morrison“A magical writer—one of the greatest of the twentieth century.” —Margaret Atwood“My favorite novel.” —Chimamanda...

Spanish Language Translation “When truth teller and careful writer bell hooks offers a book, I like to be standing at the bookshop when it opens.”...

A landmark collection of love poetry by the most widely published African American poet of her time, tracing the arc of a queer relationship and...

An ideal introduction to the work of the poet, activist, and visionary whom Toni Morrison called “our premiere Black woman essayist,” Nothing Less Than Love brings together...

Black poets from the early twentieth century and onward come together for a moving anthology, edited and organized by the late, revered poet June Jordan.First...

"This June Jordan treasure is a rare piece of fiction from one of America's most vital poets and political essayists--a tender story of young love...

This thirtieth-anniversary edition of June Jordan’s foundational poetry program guidebook features a foreword by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new preface from Samiya Bashir.If you want...

A beautifully edition of Frederick Douglass’s groundbreaking autobiography, one of the most powerful and enduring works in American literature. Elegantly designed for collectors, students, and...

One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years The unexpected discovery in 2009 of a completed manuscript of Claude McKay's final novel...

Set in 1904 August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean begins on the eve of Aunt Esther's 287th birthday. When Citizen Barlow comes to her Pittsburgh's Hill District...

The definitive sampling of a writer whose poems were “at the forefront of the Harlem Renaissance and of modernism itself, and today are fundamentals of...

  LANGSTON HUGHES was born in Joplin, Missouri, in 1902. After graduation from high school, he spent a year in Mexico with his father, then...

A rip-roaring introduction to Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones, patrolling New York City’s roughest streets in the groundbreaking Harlem Detectives series. “[This] Harlem saga...

The book that Walter Kirn said was like "Hieronymus Bosch meets Miles Davis" (The New York Times). - Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones get...

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A one-volume selection of four novels in the legendary detective series—blistering, groundbreaking capers set in Harlem's criminal underworld—by...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences comes Joe Turner's Come and Gone—Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play. “The glow accompanying August Wilson’s...

A pointed satire about a Nigerian on vacation in Europe, into the heart of whitenessFour years ago, a young man named Furo Wariboko woke up...

An inspirational keepsake from the multiple award-winning writer and activistDynamic and legendary, poet and activist Sonia Sanchez is one of the most esteemed poets in...

For fans of the Oscar-winning film American Fiction: the landmark comic satire that asks, “What would happen if all black people in America turned white?”—featuring an...

The only issue-by-issue, story-by-story history of Spider-Man comics from the wall crawler's first appearance in Amazing Fantasy #15 (August 1962) to the present. Fully-illustrated with archival images. From...