Collection: Non-Fiction

A Woman is a School is the first memoir and cultural anthropological book by Slow Factory founder, Céline Semaan.   As a war-survivor and child...

What kind of mother abandons her child? During the pandemic, trapped at home with young children and struggling to find creative space to write, journalist...

From ancestral healing expert Panquetzani comes traditional Indigenous wisdom for helping women thrive in, rather than merely survive, the postpartum experience.   Though we now...

A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta...

A collection of literary essays about California from some of the state's most established, and most exciting upcoming writers.   Writing the Golden State: The...

One of #OprahsFavoriteThings of 2024! As Oprah says on OprahDaily.com, "Financial expert Mellody Hobson wrote this children's book to encourage financial literacy, but I bet,...

The Myth of Capitalism tells the story of how America has gone from an open, competitive marketplace to an economy where a few very powerful companies...

Longlisted for the National Book Award A brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music, fantasy, and pop culture--from Beyoncé to Game of Thrones--to excavate...

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER What does it means to lose your roots--within your culture, within your family--and what happens when you find them?Nicole Chung was born...

  The poems in this volume were chosen by Hughes himself shortly before his death in 1967 and encompass work from his entire career. His...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "bracing" (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism, from "a rising public intellectual unafraid to...

A vision of the first decade of socialism in the United States. The diverse multinational working class has achieved political supremacy and is actively eliminating...

Thirty years after its original publication, this newly imagined edition brings the work and musings of fifteen Black literary luminaries in conversation with a new...

A novel approach to understanding the work of James Baldwin and its transformative potential The relationship of James Baldwin's life and work to Black religion...

Tracing five centuries of exploitation in Latin America, a classic in the field, now in its twenty fifth year Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century...

Hawk is a magnificent long-form poem analogizing flight into space with freedom. First published in 1957, these new editions mark the first time Hawk is widely...

An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture and bad taste, exploring coming of age in the...

The Lineages of Change Tarot flows from the wisdom of Black changemakers throughout history, including Octavia E. Butler, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Lucille Clifton, James Baldwin,...

A groundbreaking collection of photographs and essays that shed new light on the history of Black America, from the Picturing Black History project. "An astonishing...

National Book Award: Longlist for Poetry It's nearly impossible to write poetry that holds the human desire for joy and the insistent agitations of protest...

Hortense Spillers is one of the most important literary critics and Black feminist scholars of the last fifty years. Her 1987 scholarly article "Mama's Baby,...

2024 Roberto Reis Book Prize, First Book category, Brazilian Studies AssociationWinner -- 2024 Critical and Cultural Studies Division Outstanding Book Award, National Communication Association (NCA)...

Racially and economically segregated schools across the United States have hosted many interventions from commercial digital education technology (edtech) companies who promise their products will...

The best-selling week-to-view radical diary and weekly planner is back for the new year! The 2025 Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner is a beautifully...