Collection: Classics

This powerful collection of articles, essays, and letters spans the period between Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Fanon's...

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM STARRING SAMUEL L. JACKSON Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, this modern American...

A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer Since its original publication in...

A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom Izumi Suzuki had ideas about doing things differently, ideas that paid little attention to...

The coming-of-age story of one of Jamaica Kincaid's most admired creations--newly available in paperback Lucy, a teenage girl from the West Indies, comes to North...

“A magical writer—one of the greatest of the twentieth century.” —Margaret Atwood “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” —Toni MorrisonA classic...

This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs--many never before seen--as well as revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding...

Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her sense of self and the world, of what was possible and...

The essential, urgent coming-of-age novel by Jamaica Kincaid, a reinventor of the form.Since her first, prizewinning collection of stories, At the Bottom of the River, Jamaica...

A dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive A Penguin Classic For Roxane Gay, a feminist canon is...

A never before published novel from beloved author Zora Neale Hurston, revealing the historical Herod the Great--not the demon the Bible makes him out to...

In the 1970s, Betty Davis defied genre and gender by pushing her voice to extremes and embracing the erotic. She articulated a kind of pre-punk,...

  The most influential work by "the father of Black history", reflecting the long-standing tradition of antiracist teaching pioneered by Black educators The Mis-education of...

For the 50th anniversary of its original publication, the cult classic Daddy Cool, is now back in print with a dynamic new look.  A cold, calculating hired...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents the only authoritative edition of all three autobiographies by the escaped slave who became a great American leader. Here in...

Cassie, who flew above New York in "Tar Beach,"soars into the sky once more. This time, she and her brother Be Be meet a train...

Rich continues: "Refusing to be circumscribed by any simple identity, Audre Lorde writes as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist,...

This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin's hundredth-year anniversary, uncovering the condition of being Black in America. Originally published in Notes of a Native Son, the essays...

The critically acclaimed novel about four women who learn how to carry on while leaning on each other from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How...

A major hardcover compendium of nonfiction by one of America's most brilliant essayists, timed to the celebration of his centenary. Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual...

The acclaimed author's first collection of stories "Gayl Jones's work represents a watershed in American literature. From a literary standpoint, her form is impeccable...and as...