Collection: Staff Picks

  "Her best work yet. . . This one has it all.” — George R.R. Martin "[Okorafor’s] worlds open your mind to new things, always rooted in...

Tracy Deonn's #1 New York Times bestselling Legendborn Cycle continues in the sensational third book about a dazzling contemporary fantasy world that blends Southern Black Girl Magic...

The definitive photographic celebration of John Coltrane's life and music, featuring exclusive contributions written by Ravi Coltrane, Wayne Coyne, Dev Hynes, Phil Lesh, Julie Mehretu,...

Jennifer C. Nash examines how Black feminists have turned to beautiful writing as the voice that allows readers to stay close to the field’s central...

  A harrowing and indispensable first-hand account of the experience of the first 85 days of the Israeli invasion of Gaza, from a prominent Palestinian...

A young woman discovers that dancers at a local discotheque are being driven to acts of insane violence. "The place was full of swarming, pugnacious,...

  From the founder of Black Girl Hockey Club, a collection of deeply insightful and piercing essays shedding light on the history of Black excellence...

A thoughtful guide to ancestral veneration, with a focus on the importance of reclaiming African Spiritual practices as an act of liberation. Your ancestors remember...

An essential exploration of the overlooked impact of disordered eating among Black women--and a prescriptive road map to returning to peace and wholeness within our...

The award-winning, platinum selling rapper, songwriter, and television personality shares her unforgettable story of coming of age in Miami, her inevitable rise to stardom, and...

A revelatory look at the life, work, and legacy of the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey Alvin Ailey is one of the most celebrated choreographers of...

Amy Sherald's work, life, and significance for American art, as revealed in her powerful figurative paintings of Black subjects Bringing together nearly all of her...

The first publication to examine the symbolic importance of ancient Egypt to Black artists and other cultural figures, from the nineteenth century through the Harlem...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Jason Reynolds tackles it--you know...it--from the guy's perspective in this unfiltered and undeniably sweet stream of consciousness story of a teen...

A candid, horrific, and deeply touching new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet. Barely thirty years old, Mosab Abu...

A poetic ethnography that creates and documents the vocabulary of the Southern Black queer experience, chosen as a National Poetry Series winner by Morgan Parker....

What it means to be sexually promiscuous in contemporary American culture, edited by cult-favorite author Michelle Tea. SLUTS, the first publication from vulgarian queer publisher...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me travels the world to explore how the stories we tell--and the ones we don't--shape...

An urgent examination of the invisibility of Black women and girls as victims of targeted killings, and the lack of police intervention and media coverage...

The incredible story of MOVE, the revolutionary Black civil liberties group that Philadelphia police bombed in 1985, killing 11 civilians--by one of the few people...

Set in a foreboding Gothic mansion and infused with the heightened paranoia and creeping horror of novels like Catherine House and Crimson Peak, a spine-chilling debut historical thriller...

A trip to the zoo inspires a parent to list all the ways they love their child, no matter how wild they are, in this...