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A poetic and intimate essay collection on the lives of plants and their entanglement with our human worldsA seed slips beyond a garden wall. A seaweed drifts through an ocean....

A poignant and moving memoir-in-essays from stand-up comedian Aida Rodriguez on the power of overcoming hardship and transforming pain into laughter. Aida Rodriguez has, to put it mildly, lived a...

In this unusual, engaging, and intimate collection of personal essays, Lambda Literary Award finalist Tania De Rozario recalls growing up as a queer, brown, fat girl in Singapore, blending memoir...

From the bestselling author of Azadi and My Seditious Heart, a piercing exploration of modern empire, nationalism and rising fascism that gives us the tools to resist and fight backOver a lifetime spent...

From trailblazing political activist Angela Y. Davis, a major new collection of essays and interviews that argue for a radical rethinking of our prison systemsAn icon of revolutionary politics, Angela...

A fierce and galvanizing reminder that resistance is everywhere in the fight for abortion and reproductive justice in the United States. Fighting Mad is a book about what "reproductive justice" means...

Essays and Outtakes A Most Anticipated Book of 2023 from: LA Times * Boston Globe * The Millions * LitHub * Shondaland By the New York Times bestselling author of the award-winning...

Essays on Mothers and Daughters and the Things They Leave Behind Reminiscent of The Year of Magical Thinking and Somebody’s Daughter, a deeply empathetic and often humorous collection of essays that...

“Birds are my almanac. They tune me into the seasons, and into myself.” So begins this lively collection of essays by acclaimed filmmaker and novelist Priyanka Kumar. Growing up at...

Phenomenal Black Women and Femmes in Food: Interviews, Inspiration, and Recipes A must-have anthology of the leading Black women and femmes shaping today’s food and hospitality landscape—from farm to table...

Finding Paradise in a Divided World One of our most perceptive travel writers embarks on an exploration of the world's holiest places and where we might find paradise on Earth....

Selected Works This book is a collected works of one of Australia’s most accomplished media personalities. Chronicling his career since 2007, Close to the Subject presents a selection of pieces from Daniel...

FROM REPORTING TO REFLECTING, FIELD NOTES FOR THE SOUL In this collection of poignant and uplifting essays, seasoned international journalist Marga Ortigas shares what she's learned from over two decades...

The essential writings of China’s first iconic modern intellectual, intent on reforming an entire nation, now published for the first time in Penguin Classics The power, anger, and fluency of...

In a complex world, who is allowed to be complicated? Who is entitled to a messy life full of triumphs, mistakes and tedium? Until recently, not Black women. Kimberly McIntosh...

Candice Brathwaite's much-anticipated second book about all the things she wishes she'd been told when she was young and needed guidance. I Am Not Your Baby Mother was a landmark...

How the genetic era will change the worldA vision of the future where the latest Silicon Valley tech meets cutting-edge genetics. Decoding the World is a buddy adventure about the...

The essential collection of Hanif Kureishi's finest literary essays and fiction. Comic, dark and insightful, What Happened? is Hanif Kureishi's new collection of essays and fiction. No topic is too...

'I learned something new from each enjoyable essay and by the end realised that nature is integral to how we live on this planet, not a subsidiary to life, but...

A Letter to My Children ‘I just want equality, equality for all of us. At the moment, the scales are unfairly balanced and I just want things to be fair...

Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organisers, artists, academics and cultural figures to discuss the...

And Other Conversations About Race A perennial bestseller on the psychology of racism, published in the UK for the first time Walk into any racially mixed secondary school and you...

Performing Blackness in America From the New York Times bestselling author of Tears We Cannot Stop For more than thirty years, Michael Eric Dyson has played a prominent role in...

*Named a Most Anticipated Title of 2022 by TIME magazine, New York Times, Bustle, and more* In the midst of civil unrest in the summer of 2020 and following the...

Essays Inspired by a Life on the MoveWhat does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you? What are the joys and pains of...

A Sermon to White AmericaAs America grapples with race with anguish and anger at a level not seen since the 60s, one of America's leading Black voices speaks out honestly...

A collection of the most important essays of D.T. Suzuki, the leading authority on Buddhism of the twentieth century. Essays in Zen Buddhism was the first book to fully introduce...

The creators of the popular website Black Nerd Problems bring their witty and unflinching insight to this engaging collection of pop culture essays — on everything from Mario Kart to...

Translated by Nathan CollinsThe ferociously talented Hideo Kojima, creator of Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding, shares his perspective on the stories and movies that influence his work!Ever since he...

Find inspiration in these selected speeches from the 44th president of the United States.This curated collection of landmark speeches chronicles Barack Obama's presence on the national stage, covers his signature...

A Vanuatu Women’s Anthology Sista, Stanap Strong! is an anthology of new writing from Vanuatu by three generations of women — and the first of its kind. With poetry, fiction,...

How We Can Make a Better WorldBased on the hit BBC podcast, a guide to our global 'reset moment', examining life after the pandemic, with contributions by Pope Francis, HRH...

Intimate Stories from Black Women on Identity, Healing, and Self-Trust Foreword by Elaine Welteroth In this stunningly illustrated essay collection inspired by the popular podcast Life, I Swear, prominent Black...

Essays on Race, Gender and the BodyA powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces — between...

Two Works, Vol. 4In 1903 W.E.B. Du Bois's text The Souls of Black Folk made history as a work of sociological thought, and would go on to become a cornerstone...

Essays and CriticismISBN: 9780975609231 | Published: 2010 | Paperback | 278 pages

History, Without BordersSanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of...

And other essaysFunny, elegiac and chilling, these essays from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan blend storytelling, memoir and non-fiction to map the experience of being Muslim in the 21st...

Authentic Voices on Migration, Survival, and New Beginnings Introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen A unique collection of 41 groundbreaking essays, poems, and artwork by migrants, refugees and...

The #1 New York Times bestseller that sparked international dialogue is now a book for young adults! Based on the adult bestseller by Ibram X. Kendi, and co-authored by bestselling...

This wayfinding set of essays, by acclaimed writer and critic Lana Lopesi, explores the overlap of being a woman and Sāmoan. Writing on ancestral ideas of womanhood appears alongside contemporary...

A defence of liberalism by the renowned political philosopher. Liberalism — the comparatively mild-mannered sibling to the more ardent camps of nationalism and socialism — has never been so divisive...

Translated by Gesche IpsenHow Language Binds and Frees UsWhat happens when our language is no longer fit for purpose, and how we can change the discourse.Language opens up our world,...

Taking laughter's revelatory capacity as a starting point, and rooted in Nuar Alsadir's experience as a poet and psychoanalyst, Animal Joy is an ode to spontaneity and feeling alive. Laughter...

A unique look into the mind of a master storyteller.In this engaging book, the internationally best-selling author and famously reclusive writer shares with readers what he thinks about being a...

Translated and edited by Mid Tofighian and Moones MansoubiThe collected prison writings of Behrouz Boochani, with essays by experts on a wide range of topics from refugees, imprisoned writers and...

Black Communist Women's Political WritingThe first collection of the writing of Black communist women.Black Communist women throughout the early to mid-twentieth century fought for and led mass campaigns in the...

Newly revised for the seventy-fifth anniversary of partition, Kavita Puri conducts a vital reappraisal of empire, revisiting the stories of those collected in the 2017 edition and reflecting on recent...

A memoir of a fundamentalist Muslim childhood and of redefining faith, belonging and family in adulthood This is the story of a child raised in Canada by parents who embraced...

A landmark contemporary collection celebrating the work of 200 women writers of African descentNearly three decades after her pioneering anthology, Daughters of Africa, Margaret Busby curates an extraordinary collection of...