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How to Write about Africa
From one of Africa's most influential and eloquent essayists, a posthumous collection that highlights his biting satire and subversive wisdom on topics from travel to...
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How We Do It
Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill
How We Do It
Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill
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...
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I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
National Book Award Finalist | Instant New York Times BestsellerThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian meets Jane the Virgin in this poignant but often laugh-out-loud funny contemporary YA...
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I Can't Date Jesus
Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé
I Can't Date Jesus
Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé
From the author of I Don’t Want to Die Poor and in the style of New York Times bestsellers You Can’t Touch My Hair, Bad Feminist, and I'm Judging You, a timely...
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I Don't Want to Die Poor
Essays
From the New York Times bestselling author of I Can’t Date Jesus, which Vogue called “a piece of personal and cultural storytelling that is as fun as it is illuminating,”...
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for laughing through the pain
I Finally Bought Some Jordans
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...
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I Hope We Choose Love
A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
I Hope We Choose Love
A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World
Winner, Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender Variant Literature; American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book What can we hope for at the end of...
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I Just Keep Talking
A Life In Essays
I Just Keep Talking
A Life In Essays
Throughout her prolific writing career, Nell Painter has published works on such luminaries as Sojourner Truth, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Malcolm X. Her unique vantage...
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I Love Myself When I Am Laughing...
and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing...
and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive
The foundational, classic anthology that revived interest in the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God--one of the greatest writers of our time--and made her work widely...
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I Shouldn't Be Telling You This
(But I'm Going to Anyway)
I Shouldn't Be Telling You This
(But I'm Going to Anyway)
"It's f*cking great!!! Raw, intimate, hilarious, actually inspiring." -Jon StewartA dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her tumultuous upbringing and uproarious...
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I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn about Money
I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn about Money
A big-hearted, no-bullshit memoir from the TikTok superstar about her journey from living paycheck to paycheck to creating a multi-million-dollar business that offers a compassionate...
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I'm Telling the Truth, But I'm Lying
Essays
In I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying Bassey Ikpi explores her life—as a Nigerian-American immigrant, a Black woman, a slam poet, a mother, a daughter, an...
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If I Were You, I'd Kill Myself (Pre-Order, March 6 2026)
An unapologetic, hilarious, and triumphant debut memoir about the inequality those in the disabled community face on a daily basis from a valued voice...
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In My Remaining Years
(Pre-Order, March 11 2025)
In My Remaining Years
(Pre-Order, March 11 2025)
A collection of darkly humorous, intensely personal essays by cult fave and multi-hyphenate artist Jean Grae In My Remaining Years, by creative juggernaut Jean Grae,...
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In Search of Our Mother's Gardens
In her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist, in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal...
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Inciting Joy
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prize-winning...
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Intimations
Six Essays
Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of reflective essays by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time.Written...
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Is Jesus Kinda Hot?
A hilarious, candid, and insightful essay collection about faith and love from award-winning journalist Phillip Picardi. Phillip Picardi is an award-winning journalist and editor. He...
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It Came from the Closet
Queer Reflections on Horror
It Came from the Closet
Queer Reflections on Horror
Through the lens of horror--from Halloween to Hereditary--queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences. Horror movies hold a complicated...
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James Baldwin
Collected Essays
James Baldwin was a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. His brilliant and provocative essays made him the literary voice of the Civil Rights Era, and...
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James Baldwin. Steve Schapiro. The Fire Next Time
First published in 1963, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called "Negro problem." As remarkable for its masterful prose...
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June 11th EVENT: Everything and Nothing at Once
Joél Leon + Cyrus Aaron
Sold outJune 11th EVENT: Everything and Nothing at Once
Joél Leon + Cyrus Aaron
WHO & WHAT: Join us for an IRL EVENT with essayist and cultural critic, Joél Leon, as we discuss his soaring debut collection of essays,...
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Just Us
An American Conversation
Just Us
An American Conversation
Claudia Rankine’s Citizen changed the conversation―Just Us urges all of us into it.As everyday white supremacy becomes increasingly vocalized with no clear answers at hand, how best might...
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Kara Walker
(October Files)
Selected texts that survey the full range of Kara Walker's artistic practice, emphasizing the work itself rather than the debates and controversies around it. Kara...
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