Collection: Staff Picks

New York Times bestselling author Michael Arceneaux makes his long-awaited return with a hilarious collection of essays about making your voice heard in an increasingly noisy...

Famed 60s sunshine pop band 5th Dimension's LaMonte McLemore's additional enduring legacy is that of a photographer, contributing a weekly column "Beauty of the Week"...

Thelonious Monk Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous...

A wide-ranging survey of Black art in the American South, from Thornton Dial and Nellie Mae Rowe to the quilters of Gee’s Bend For generations,...

A collection of personal essays that grapples with Ziwe's (mis)understanding of identity, by comedy's most iconic voice Ziwe made a name for herself staring interviewees...

Violence is arrayed against me because I'm Black, or female, or queer, or undocumented. There is no rescue team coming for us. With that knowledge,...

Incendiary, lyrical poems of liberation from the phantasm of Black womanhood. Wedding fierce, jagged lines to an uncompromisingly lyrical flow honed over years of performance,...

From the host of Everything Iconic with Danny Pellegrino comes a collection of stories you'll be glad didn't happen to you. Think of the most embarrassing thing...

Equal parts stunning, photo-heavy look book and cultural commentary, Fly is the story of the undeniable intersection of high fashion and basketball. Organized by era, each section...

A glorious design herbarium of marijuana ads from the great underground magazines of the 1960s and '70s The youth uprising now simply known as the...

From a New York Times bestselling and award-winning creator, this deeply moving story shares valuable lessons about fitting in, standing out, and the beauty of joyful acceptance....

A modern, inclusive guide to astrology that uses the zodiac to illuminate your love life as well as your relationships with your family, your friends,...

Published to accompany a major exhibition at Zeitz MOCAA, CapeTown, When We See Us presents a comprehensive exploration of Black representation through portraiture and figuration, celebrating Black...

One of the few indisputable geniuses of pop music, Sly Stone is a trailblazer and a legend. He created a new kind of music, mixing...

In her first new book in seven years, Tananarive Due further cements her status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism "Tananarive Due...

A swoony, heart-melting YA romance from beloved author Rebekah Weatherspoon about two awkward teens who decide to practice dating in order to be good at...

  Includes a new foreward by Saidya Hartman Alison Mills Newman's innovative, genre-bending novel has long been out of print and impossible to find. A...

In the tradition of Michelle Alexander, an unflinching reckoning with the impact of 40 years of racist public school policy on generations of Black lives ...

More than 30 acclaimed writers--including diverse voices such as Nikki Giovanni, David Omotosho Black, Natasha Trethewey, Barry Jenkins, Jacqueline Woodson, Tayari Jones, and Angela Flournoy--reflect...

A seminal work that expands how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics Circle Criticism finalist Camille T. Dungy...

From actor-author-broadcaster-comedian-filmmaker Richard Ayoade comes a book narrated by... a book. Quirky, smart, and genre-busting, this is the saga of a book that nobody wants...

A remarkable time capsule of Simi Valley, 1979, written before the author would become one of LA's most influential artists of subsequent decades. When Sean...

Change the way you think about cooking! In this epic guide to better eating, the chef, recipe developer, and video producer Sohla El-Waylly reimagines what...