Collection: Staff Picks

Molly Bauer's first year of college is not the picture-perfect piece of art she'd always envisioned. On day one at PICA, Molly discovers that--through some...

'Pemi Aguda opens her collection of twelve stories with the chilling tale of a woman who uncannily resembles her sinister, deceased grandmother. When the woman...

Fall 2023 | Print | Issue 006FeaturingColman Domingo, Lily Gladstone, Charles Gaines, Danielle Deadwyler, James Ijames, Abigail Lucien, Ja'Tovia Gary, Isabelia Herrera, Kelli Weston, Simran...

GREATEST is a bi-annual print magazine published by GOAT GROUP showcasing the stories of up and coming artists as well as industry veterans who continuously...

From Philip K. Dick Award finalist Elwin Cotman, an irresistibly unnerving collection of stories that explore the anxieties of living while Black--a high-wire act of...

Set in contemporary Nigeria, Uche Okonkwo's A Kind of Madness is a collection of ten stories concerned with literal madness but also those private feelings that, when...

A radical reframing of the past and present of Black resistance--both nonviolent and violent--to white supremacy Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to...

  Whoopi Goldberg brings new meaning to what it means to be a superhero in a new graphic novel! Isabel Frost is a woman who...

A grieving mother calls out to her faraway son. A student forgoes the lurid appeal of dating apps in exchange for a painter's love. The...

The future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous...

  In-depth discussions on bootlegging and its myriad definitions in the creative world Over the last few decades, the term "bootlegging"--a practice once relegated to...

Two sets of 20 unique letterpress postcards featuring quotes by iconic Black women, from Audre Lorde to Octavia Butler This freshly commissioned set of postcards...

Celebrating the storied career of a beloved letterpress printer whose posters spread messages of racial justiceDetroit-based letterpress printer Amos Paul Kennedy, Jr. is celebrated for...

How modern and contemporary artists across the African and Caribbean diasporas transformed European Surrealism into a tool for Black expression On the centennial anniversary of...

Centuries of art celebrating a global panorama of Indigenous cultures Continuing the work of the acclaimed Afro-Atlantic Histories, this publication from the Museu de Arte de...

The long-awaited monograph on Barkley L. Hendricks' powerful portraits of contemporary Black subjects Barkley L. Hendricks is rightly known as one of the foremost American...

In her grandmother's garden, a young Black girl learns about mindfulness and herbal medicine in this soothing intergenerational story about our connection to nature.  ...

"This book rewired my brain; it's a bonafide knockout." --Kristen Arnett, author of With Teeth"You can try bracing yourself for the ride this story takes...

A long-awaited, comprehensive collection of renowned poet and performance artist Jayne Cortez's poetry. Like the jazz rhythms that inspired and punctuated her practice, Jayne Cortez...

Bestselling author ReShonda Tate presents a fascinating fictional portrait of Hattie McDaniel, one of Hollywood's most prolific but woefully underappreciated stars--and the first Black person...

  Magical realism meets Southern Gothic in this commanding young adult debut from Ciera Burch about true love, the meaning of home, and the choices...

In Where Sleeping Girls Lie -- a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Times-bestselling author of Ace of Spades -- a girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and...

Enter a future of defiant vitality in GLEEMImbued with cyberpunk attitude and in the rebellious tradition of afrofuturism, GLEEM is drawn with a fierce momentum hurtling towards a...