Collection: Staff Picks

How does a photographic project or series evolve? How important are “style” and “genre”? What comes first―the photographs or a concept?PhotoWork is a collection of interviews...

Glory Edim launches her Well-Read Black Girl Library with this vital anthology celebrating stories from such luminaries as Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. Since founding...

A candid exploration of the genius, shame, and celebrity of Whitney Houston a decade after her passingOn February 11, 2012, Whitney Houston was found submerged...

Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and...

From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful...

Coleman was a beat-up, broke, and Black woman who wrote with anger, humor, and clarity. Wicked Enchantment: Selected Poems is a selection of 130 of her poems,...

This is the first publication to survey the entirety of this hugely influential scholar and artist's groundbreaking 60-year career. Driskell and his landmark exhibition, Two Centuries...

The 1619 Project's lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States, thoughtfully rendered...

A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. ...

An uproarious, sensual novel, Leone Ross's Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are broken, and love awaits. Everyone in Popisho was...

From funny and fearless entertainment journalist Sesali Bowen, Bad Fat Black Girl combines rule-breaking feminist theory, witty and insightful personal memoir, and cutting cultural analysis for an...

Forget the aesthetics of mainstream minimalism and discover a life of authenticity and intention with this practical guide to living with less...your way. When Christine...

"In this evocative memoir, Cassandra Lane deftly uses the act of imagination to reclaim her ancestors’ story as a backdrop for telling her own. The...

A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought by Black Lesbian writers, in the tradition of The New Press's perennial seller Words of Fire. Edited...

A groundbreaking exposé of racism in the American taxation system from a law professor and expert on tax policy“Important reading for those who want to...

End the struggle, speak up for what you need, and experience the freedom of being truly yourself.Healthy boundaries. We all know we should have them--in...

A major literary event: an explosive, previously unpublished novel from the 1940s by the legendary author of Native Son and Black BoyFred Daniels, a Black man, is picked...

One of Vulture, LitHub, The Millions, and Paperback Paris's Most Anticipated Books of 2021, one of Cosmopolitan's 30 New LGBTQ+ Books to Add to Your Reading List in 2021 and...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One of today’s most insightful and influential thinkers offers a powerful exploration of inequality and the lesson that generations of Americans...

In this modern-day fable about grief, diversity, and family connections, a young girl discovers the joys–and pain–of the creative process. Eisha lives with her mother,...