Collection: Non-Fiction

A Buddhist lama and intersectional thought leader shares a clarion call for those who would dream a more just, ethical world into being. Saints, spiritual...

With echoes of Educated and Born a Crime, How to Say Babylon is the stunning story of the author’s struggle to break free of her rigid Rastafarian upbringing, ruled by...

  "I write about people who do extraordinary things. It just turned out that it was called science fiction." - Octavia E. Butler   Octavia...

"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance."--bell hooks   bell...

What does it mean to be a body behind a screen, lost in the hustle of an online world? In our age of digital hyper-connection,...

In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews -- including her first and last -- Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a "national treasure") details...

Winner of the 2014 Anna Julia Cooper-CLR James Book Award presented by the National Council of Black Studies Winner of the 2014 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles...

Tender is the first monograph by artist Carla Williams. Made in private between 1984 and 1999 and kept mostly to herself for more than thirty years,...

Previously marginalized, overlooked, or even erased from history, Black designers are finally given their due in this first book to celebrate a century of ground-breaking...

A spellbinding look at the philosophical and moral implications of animal dreaming Are humans the only dreamers on Earth? What goes on in the minds of animals...

Since the early 2000s, the phenomenon of the "down low"--black men who have sex with men as well as women and do not identify as...

An award-winning author presents a portrait of Black America in the nineteenth century Over the course of two decades, award-winning poet Patricia Smith has amassed...

The award-winning author of Magical Negro traces the trauma and beauty of existing as a Black woman back through American history, from the foundational trauma of the...

Deciphers the history of "Black capitalist" rhetoric-- and how it serves to enrich a minuscule few at the expense of the many In his 1970 book The Myth...

The first critical examination of death and remembrance in the digital age--and an invitation to imagine Black digital sovereignty in life and death.   In Resurrecting...

For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded...

Debut. A funny, heartwarming, and surprising ode to growing up, getting older and wiser, and luck, life, and learning from the school of hard knocks,...

Set against the glittering backdrop of Los Angeles in the gin-soaked Jazz Age and the rise of Hollywood, this debut book celebrates Anna May Wong,...

An A to Z of video games - 300 entries showcasing the most influential and celebrated games, consoles, publishers, and more A visual history of...

Stylish portraiture on the streets of Dakar, Mumbai and elsewhere, from the director of Mother of George and Beauty The first retrospective volume on the photography of the...

  From beloved and bestselling author Roxane Gay, "a strikingly fresh cultural critic" (Washington Post) comes an exhilarating collection of her essays on culture, politics,...

**Includes an exclusive WORTHY affirmation Mirror Decal with each purchase while supplies last** A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and...

By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning AFTERPARTIES comes a collection like none other: sharply funny, emotionally expansive essays and linked short fiction exploring...