Collection: Non-Fiction

Thirty years after its original publication, this newly imagined edition brings the work and musings of fifteen Black literary luminaries in conversation with a new...

A novel approach to understanding the work of James Baldwin and its transformative potential The relationship of James Baldwin's life and work to Black religion...

Tracing five centuries of exploitation in Latin America, a classic in the field, now in its twenty fifth year Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century...

Hawk is a magnificent long-form poem analogizing flight into space with freedom. First published in 1957, these new editions mark the first time Hawk is widely...

An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture and bad taste, exploring coming of age in the...

The Lineages of Change Tarot flows from the wisdom of Black changemakers throughout history, including Octavia E. Butler, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Lucille Clifton, James Baldwin,...

A groundbreaking collection of photographs and essays that shed new light on the history of Black America, from the Picturing Black History project. "An astonishing...

National Book Award: Longlist for Poetry It's nearly impossible to write poetry that holds the human desire for joy and the insistent agitations of protest...

Hortense Spillers is one of the most important literary critics and Black feminist scholars of the last fifty years. Her 1987 scholarly article "Mama's Baby,...

2024 Roberto Reis Book Prize, First Book category, Brazilian Studies AssociationWinner -- 2024 Critical and Cultural Studies Division Outstanding Book Award, National Communication Association (NCA)...

Racially and economically segregated schools across the United States have hosted many interventions from commercial digital education technology (edtech) companies who promise their products will...

The best-selling week-to-view radical diary and weekly planner is back for the new year! The 2025 Verso Radical Diary and Weekly Planner is a beautifully...

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER "A work of extraordinary reportage and compassion...[it] will shock you, move you, and leave you changed." -- Matthew Desmond, Pulitzer Prize-winning...

A stunning cultural biography of De La Soul, the era-defining hip-hop trio that touched millions of lives and changed rap forever. De La Soul burst...

We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti-Black and racial-colonial violence. ...

A reimagining of the best-selling book that gives young adults the tools to ask questions, engage in dialogue, challenge their ways of thinking, and take action...

This book, written with so much love, so much realism, so much honesty and so much literary beauty by my friend and comrade in the...

Víctor Jara was a Chilean poet, singer, theatre director, and communist activist. He was tortured and killed after the coup of 11 September 1973, which...

A radical analysis of Palestinian resistance from one of their most influential voices. Revisit Ghassan Kanafani's pivotal text in a new English edition. Kanafani presents...

Raised in Appalachia, native daughter Ashleigh Shanti, a queer Black woman and acclaimed chef, knows Southern Black cooking means more than we've come to believe....

Rules to Win By: Participation and Power in Union Negotiations is a book for anyone who wants to understand how to build the power required to...

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture In the ebullient spirit of Ocean's 8, The Heist, and Thelma & Louise, a sensational and entertaining memoir of the...

The instant New York Times bestseller! "Warm and perceptive." --New York Times "Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a story." --Washington Post"Dunne is a prospector for the incandescent detail." --Los...

“What should we watch?” Never has a simple question sparked more family debate. That’s where this book comes in: Hey Kids, Watch This! is jam-packed with over...