Collection: Staff Picks

From Pola Oloixarac, the critically acclaimed author of Savage Theories and Dark Constellations, comes Mona, in which success as a “writer of color” proves to be a fresh hell for a...

Black transgender luminary Tourmaline brings to life the first definitive biography of the revolutionary activist Marsha P. Johnson, one of the most important and remarkable...

A stunning visual homage to Black bookstores around the country along with profiles and essays that celebrate the history, community, activism, and culture these spaces...

  For Volume 06, Forgotten Lands has chosen to center around what Cuban historical novelist, critical essayist, and short story writer Antonio Benítez-Rojo once termed...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lighter offers a blueprint for deepening your compassion, kindness, and gratitude so you can truly grow in harmony with another person...

The untold origin story of the 5 Muses from Disney's Hercules is revealed in this rollicking YA fantasy filled with mythical adventure, music, and the unbreakable bonds...

"A Powerful Memoir and Documentary History" By combining the intimacy of a personal memoir with the rigor of documentary history, Lydia Otero weaves together a...

An electrifying debut story collection about Central American identity that spans past, present, and future worlds to reveal what happens when your life is no...

From the acclaimed designer and bestselling author of Reimagining Design, a nonlinear approach to navigating design's nuances in pursuit of meaningful innovation. In Nonlinear, Kevin Bethune shows...

Learn how AI technology can utilize human-created biases, and what we can do to create a more fair, just world. This is a book about...

The first title in Aperture's Vision & Justice Series--featuring a collection of award-winning short essays by Maurice Berger that explore the intersections of photography, race,...

  The award-winning art historian and founder of Vision & Justice uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United States when...

A Nigerian Catcher in the Rye, Uchenna Awoke's masterful debut breaks the silence about a hidden and dangerous contemporary caste system Fifteen-year-old Dimkpa dreams of the...

The first monograph by the New Black Vanguard's Arielle Bobb-Willis is a vivid statement about color, gesture, and style. Keep the Kid Alive, Arielle Bobb-Willis's first...

A darkly comic memoir-in-essays about the scam of the American Dream and doing whatever it takes to survive in the Sunshine State--from the award-winning author...

Examining aesthetic connections between the works of more than 50 Black artists from throughout the global diaspora This book was born out of frustration with...

We all know it takes guts and creativity to fight for justice. But how often do we put those same qualities to work in our...

A loving and powerful photobook following the lineage of one Black family, interrogating the semiotics of family portraiture This profoundly moving and visually ravishing photobook,...

From RuPaul's Drag Race winner and host of HBO's We're Here comes an inventive, wondrous novel about American hero Harriet Tubman that remixes history into a fresh, dynamic novel about...

A stirring love letter to the artist's great-grandmother, Aisha, and a visual and poetic homage to an elderly generation of women across the Middle East...

  A powerhouse survey of work from today's most celebrated Black women artists Black women artists have historically faced marginalization and underrepresentation within the art...

Portrayals of James Baldwin and others in his circle highlight the iconic writer's activism The American writer and activist James Baldwin (1924-87) considered himself a...