Collection: Classics

In his rousing adventure story, Alexandre Dumas employs all the elements of compelling drama—suspense, intrigue, love, vengeance, and the triumph of good over evil—that contribute...

A rediscovered classic about how racism and sexism tests the spirit, ambition, and character of three children growing up in Hell's Kitchen and Harlem, from...

In one volume, two landmark novels about the terrible power of race in America from one of the foremost African American writers of the past...

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award • In this powerful work of nonfiction that takes up immigration and the strength of family, Edwidge...

Double vinyl LP pressing. Bitches Brew is a studio album by jazz musician, composer, and bandleader Miles Davis, originally released on March 30, 1970. It...

Harlem Renaissance author Claude McKay's semi-autobiographical novel about Black former dockworkers living in France, freshly repackaged for the Union Square & Co. Signature Editions line.  On the...

"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...