Collection: Staff Picks

From New York Times bestselling author Alexandra Elle comes a vulnerable exploration of the friendships that shape us, stretch us, and sometimes wound usThe Company We Keep is...

From the three-time Coretta Scott King Honor winning author of The Skin I'm In comes a poignant story about a southern girl far from home at an...

Fall 2025 | Print | Issue 009Featuring: André Holland, Murtada Elfadl, Autumn Durald Arkapaw, Yance Ford, Sanford Biggers, Maya S. Cade, Darol Olu Kae, Bedatri D. Choudhury, Eman Mohammed, Kambole Campbell,...

A necessary and exciting addition to both the Sri Lankan-American and LGBTQ canons, SJ Sindu's debut novel offers a moving and sharply rendered exploration of friendship,...

From award-winning author Candice Iloh and New York Times illustrator Bea Jackson comes a warmhearted picture book celebration of traditional Nigerian home cooking and the surprising joys...

The first book from artist Danielle Mckinney, featuring 50 prompts for self-reflection written by her mother and a 44-page journal for the reader to respond...

A rediscovered classic from the Harlem Renaissance about a young Black woman’s journey passing as white in 1920s New York City and her quest for...

Now a major motion picture starring Max Pelayo, Reese Gonzales, and Eva Longoria!A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)This Printz Honor Book is a “tender,...

Mutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world. Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling...

Discover how to create memorable meals using affordable, good-for-you ingredients with 85 delectable recipes that celebrate the comfort of eating at home, from the founder...

Conceived and first composed on her laptop at home, with some vocals recorded in her bathroom, Erykah Badu's New Amerykah Part Two is lo-fi and...

Featuring more than 100 artists, this landmark book charts the intricate connections between photography and the Black Arts Movement The Black Arts Movement brought together...

Originally published in 2000, Reflections in Black was the first single-volume work to collect the images of leading African American photographers--from the daguerreotype to the digital age....

Langston Hughes's debut novel, a moving portrait of African American family life in 1930s Kansas, newly reissued for Union Square & Co.'s Herald Classics line....

*DELUXE Bloom edition of RESTORE ME included a signed custom bookplate, sprayed edges, branded magnet, and sticker (while supplies last)* A steamy, forbidden enemies to...

'To explore a history of Black communities across centuries of art is a love letter to the practice, a gift of knowledge and an ode...

Lydia Hudgens’s debut photo book, featuring only plus-sized models: a first in fashion publishing.In a landscape where magazine covers are still dominated by skinny bodies...

Whiting award-winning poet and Distinguished Chair of Humanities at MIT, Dr. Joshua Bennett creates a masterful synthesis of personal narrative and history that illuminates the...

A LAMBDA Award winner and breakout fiction sensation returns with a darkly funny slice of friendship strife   We arrive to wreckage—a restaurant smashed to...

Incisive questions about capitalism, colonialism, and the future of technology abound in this cyberpunk fable from visionary poet, performer, and director Saul Williams.In Martyr Loser King, the...

In this part-memoir, part-manifesto at the intersection of personal grief and political resistance, an acclaimed poet and policy strategist leans on Black radical literary traditions...