Non-Fiction

This remarkable collection of poems, meditations, fragments, and journal entries was Mahmoud Darwish's last volume to come out in Arabic. This River is at once lyrical and philosophical, questioning and wise, full of irony, resistance, and play...

"One of our true superstars of nonfiction" (David Foster Wallace), Lewis Hyde offers a playful and inspiring defense of forgetfulness by exploring the healing effect it can have on the human psyche. We live in a culture that prizes memory--how much we...

Read it with someone you hate. --Jon Stewart A hilarious look at the races of the world--capturing the proud history and bright future of racism in one handy, authoritative, and deeply offensive volume. Whether you're laughing, cringing, or some...

A polarizing collection of poetic musings that illuminate the struggles of the African-American male. Each work evaluates the complexities of the black experience from various perspectives and is meant to precipitate discussion. Ink Stains utilizes his...

A polarizing collection of poetic musings that illuminate the struggles of the African-American male. Each work evaluates the complexities of the black experience from various perspectives and is meant to precipitate discussion. Ink Stains utilizes his...

She was president of one of the country's top publicity agencies, with a Who's Who in Entertainment client list that included Eddie Murphy, Miles Davis, and Janet Jackson. The bestselling author of The Personal Touch, she was a popular speaker for...

A phonological study of the four Gwari lects (Nigeria): Northern and Southern Gbagyi, and Northern and Southern Gbari. By making an analysis of each dialect, the author seeks greater understanding of the phonology of Gwari as a whole. Since...

Five years in the making, A People's Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles, role plays, simulations, stores, poems, and graphics to help breathe life into teaching about the environmental crisis. The book features some of the best articles...

Whether it is observations during Poetry Month during the pandemic, stories in song, reflections on pets, both real and synthetic, having her mother's poems finally published, or having the word "poetry" misspelled "pietry" turned into a fun section on...

REGIONAL BESTSELLER Now a documentary narrated by Common, produced by Grant Hill, Dwyane Wade, and 9th Wonder, from filmmaker Mary Mazzio The moving true story of a group of young men growing up on Chicago's West side who form the first all-Black high...

Gwendolyn Wilson Dean is a Dallas, Texas born author. She is the author of A More Perfect Way, a written project designed to provide a personal learning experience suitable for developing character and qualities relative to superior social status or...

Gwendolyn Wilson Dean is a Dallas, Texas born author. She is the author of A More Perfect Way, a written project designed to provide a personal learning experience suitable for developing character and qualities relative to superior social status or...

In the tender, sensual, and bracing poems of a more perfect Union, Teri Ellen Cross Davis reclaims the experience of living and mothering while Black in contemporary America, centering Black women's pleasure by wresting it away from the relentless...