Collection: Staff Picks

'To explore a history of Black communities across centuries of art is a love letter to the practice, a gift of knowledge and an ode...

Lydia Hudgens’s debut photo book, featuring only plus-sized models: a first in fashion publishing.In a landscape where magazine covers are still dominated by skinny bodies...

Whiting award-winning poet and Distinguished Chair of Humanities at MIT, Dr. Joshua Bennett creates a masterful synthesis of personal narrative and history that illuminates the...

A LAMBDA Award winner and breakout fiction sensation returns with a darkly funny slice of friendship strife   We arrive to wreckage—a restaurant smashed to...

  Television writer, producer, and bestselling author of the acclaimed The Broke Diaries and Mixed charts her unexpected role as her terminally ill mother's caretaker in this funny, moving,...

Incisive questions about capitalism, colonialism, and the future of technology abound in this cyberpunk fable from visionary poet, performer, and director Saul Williams.In Martyr Loser King, the...

In this part-memoir, part-manifesto at the intersection of personal grief and political resistance, an acclaimed poet and policy strategist leans on Black radical literary traditions...

Award-winning sexuality educator Ericka Hart examines society's conservative views on sex and pleasure throughout history and offers an accessible, candid, and intersectional guide on how...

From the author of Oshún and Me and the artist of Homegrown comes a joyful picture book that celebrates community and individuality, inspired by real people with disabilities everywhere.Today...

In over a dozen interviews, Conversations with Kiese Laymon provides an in-depth look at author Kiese Laymon as an educator, creative writer, activist, family member, and Mississippian....

Hip-hop legend “Da Brat” DuPart and her wife Judy DuPart, stars of WEtv’s highly rated reality series Brat Loves Judy, share their journey to the altar and...

A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered CosmosIn her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and...

A reissue of Greg Tate's classic, out-of-print collection of essays, with a new introduction by Hanif Abdurraqib and a new foreword by Questlove. From one...

A beautiful and moving testament to the enduring life of Kobe Bryant and the Mamba Mentality.When Kobe and Gianna Bryant died, tragically and unexpectedly, in...

From the buzzy, viral sensation Only For The Week, comes the next book in Natasha Bishop's The Forever Falling series, featuring an intimate bucket list road...

Ctrl + Alt + Complete - a 500 Piece Puzzle that lets you take a break from your screen but not from the keyboard. Step...

For readers of His Name Is George Floyd and Under the SkinA landmark investigation into forensic medicine that exposes the systematic concealment of state-sanctioned violence through death investigationsEach...

Edición en español de la artista y compositora Victoria Monét, ganadora de varios premios Grammy, llega un poético audiolibro ideal para los niños que sufren...

Everything Grows in Jiddo’s Garden is the story of a young Palestinian girl and her Jiddo—her Grandpa!Jiddo’s garden is a wonder. In it grows so...

Opposites attract in this contemporary, sweet, sapphic romance about two girls who reluctantly come together for a summer challenge.THIS PAPERBACK EDITION FEATURES GORGEOUS THREE COLOR...

Boston Globe–Horn Book Award–winning author Brandy Colbert gives The Parent Trap a fresh, funny, and delightfully unexpected update in this story of two girls—one raised by her single...

A pioneering manifesto from Brazil about the centrality of sex workers to feminist struggle. As long as feminism has existed as a movement in Brazil,...