Essays

On Sailing, Craft, and Community A lingering, long-haul collection of writing about sailing for readers of Julietta Singh and Kyo Maclear. In Relative to Wind, Phoebe Wang delivers a poetic...

'A compelling call for identity and justice.' ANTHONY LEWISA groundbreaking account of the history of Palestine by one of the world's most eloquent scholars of the Middle East, featuring a...

Lessons From More Than 100 Retreats From the bestselling author of The Art of Stillness, a revelatory exploration of the abiding clarity and calm to be found in quiet retreatOver the...

The wise words of science fiction icon Octavia E. Butler live on in this beautiful and giftable little volume. “There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems....

On Feminism, Race, Faith and Belonging A collection of fascinating, highly relatable memoir-style essays about coming of age and finding your feet as a second-generation Australian Muslim. As a Pakistani-Australian...

WINNER: 2016 Indigenous Writer's Prize in the NSW Premier's Literary AwardsWINNER: 2016 Book of the Year in the NSW Premier's Literary AwardsSHORTLISTED: 2014 History Book Award in the Queensland Literary...

Notes From the Women That White Feminists Forgot I'm a feminist. Mostly.I'm an asshole. Mostly. All too often the focus of mainstream feminism is not on basic survival for the...

'Brims with ideas and insights . . . Ghosh is at his sparkling best' IRISH TIMES Wild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writing on the subjects that have obsessed...

In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and racism in Britain were being led by those who weren't affected by...

Women so empowered are dangerous Written with a 'black woman's anger' and the precision of a poet, these searing pieces by the groundbreaking writer Audre Lorde are a celebration of...

A Biomythography A soaring, sensual coming-of-age novel, by the legendary 'Black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet'If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for...

A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer Jackie Kay, New StatesmanI would never have chosen this path, but I am...

Life lessons from the law A frank and funny insider's view of the Australian legal system, packed with hilarious true stories and useful life lessons. As a criminal defence lawyer,...

A Collection By the People; Unveiling Their Stories and Emotions From the Year That Has Been As the year 2023 came to an end, and wistfulness filled the air with...

Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations Instant New York Times Bestseller  “Truly, there's no shame in taking a break from books during the pandemic. But if you're feeling ready to reach out,...

A vital anthology exploring the intersections between caregiving and abolition Abolition has never been a proposal to simply tear things down. As Alexis Pauline Gumbs asks, “What if abolition is...

From New York Times bestselling author, feminist pioneer, and cultural icon bell hooks, a timelessly necessary treatise on how patriarchy and toxic masculinity hurts us all, with a new introduction...

From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human....

A soulful, generation-defining collection of thought-provoking, agitating, and liberating works from Dick Gregory, the activist and author of sixteen books, including the classic bestseller Nigger: An Autobiography and the 2017...

Translated by Daniel Steuer A spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world...

·Long-listed for the 2024 British Science Fiction Association Award, Best Non-Fiction·2024 Locus Recommended Reading List·One of Brittle Paper's 100 Notable African Books of 2024·One of Open Country Mag's 60 Notable...

Reflections on the chords and discords inherent in the relationship between tradition and modernism. Written between the early 1960s and the mid-1970s, the articles and lectures collected in Moving Focus reflect...

A major hardcover compendium of nonfiction by one of America's most brilliant essayists, timed to the celebration of his centenaryNovelist, essayist, and public intellectual - James Baldwin is widely regarded...

Translated from French by Michael Wolfers One of the world's greatest revolutionary leaders, Amílcar Cabral's long and arduous campaign for the liberation of Portuguese-dominated Africa is explored in this vivid compilation...

Notes on public life, private joy and everything in between A collection of witty and heartfelt essays about love, loss and ambition, from journalist and proud Gamilaroi woman Brooke Boney....

The first major cookbook on Pakistani food, Pakistan puts this delicious and varied cuisine in its cultural context.Thanks to shared borders with Afghanistan, China, India, and Iran, and a history of migration...

A collection of interviews with some of the world’s leading progressive thinkers on the movement for Palestinian liberation and its connections to struggles for justice across the globe. As more...

From the award-winning writer and thinker, an essential reckoning with the war in Gaza, its historical conditions, and moral and geopolitical ramificationsMemory of the Holocaust, the ultimate atrocity of Europe's...

Portraits of icons from Maya Angelou to Viola Davis, collected alongside dazzling essays and criticism by the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of Ordinary People'A pleasure and an invigoration' Guardian'Every piece feels beautifully sewn...

Tenth anniversary edition In this updated edition of the bestseller published ten years ago, Oprah shares what she has come to know for sure in the last decade. After film...

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer edits a collection of Alain Locke's influential essays on the importance of the Black artist and the Black imagination For months, the philosopher Alain Locke wrestled with...

An Anthology by LGBTQ+ Arab Writers This ground-breaking anthology features the compelling and courageous memoirs of eighteen queer Arab writers – some internationally bestselling, others using pseudonyms. Here, we find...

Hot chips and turmeric stains Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa is on a quest to describe how she became an all-round performer after a childhood in a quiet and undramatic migrant family....

The Struggle for Democracy An uncompromising look at Nigeria’s crisis of democracy by a renowned essayist and critic In this groundbreaking work, the essayist and critic Adewale Maja-Pearce delivers a...

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case for the latest abolition movement in American life: the abolition of the prison. As she quite...

A delectable collection that serves up Chinese flavour beyond its taste 'I started stitching together my story through a different, universal language: food.' An A-Z of Chinese Food (Recipes Not...

From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet Ross Gay, a fresh new volume of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in...

Essays "Very good writers have an ability to make you understand what they're feeling. But the very best writers have an ability to make you understand what you're feeling. And...

First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century A groundbreaking collection of first-person writing on the joys and challenges of the modern disability experience - Disability Visibility brings together the voices of activists, authors,...

Land, Development, Democracy A rigorously reported anthology on how local politics have fueled a generation-defining national emergency. An Atlantic Edition, featuring long-form journalism by Atlantic writers, drawn from contemporary articles...

On Pain, Disability, and Doom The long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and...

The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I'd Known From the New York Times–bestselling author of All Boys Aren’t Blue comes an empowering set of essays about Black and Queer icons from...

Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America In this radical re-evaluation of American history, Saidiya Hartman uses her singular talents to create a striking portrait of nineteenth century slavery...

The instant bestseller from Djamila Ribeiro that sparked a major Black feminist movement in Brazil “Part theory, part manifesto, part history. . . . [Where We Stand] has the makings of...

From the author of Orientalism, a searching examination of western culture and the roots of imperialism, now with a foreword by Hari Kunzru 'Readers accustomed to the precision and elegance of...

NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY DEBUTIFUL, LIT HUB, PASTE MAGAZINE, BOOK RIOT, INSIDE HOOK, AND NYLON"This book is a rare comfort, a companion . . . Makes you say- yes, that is...

My Dungeon Shook; Down at the Cross 'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'James Baldwin's impassioned plea to...

“A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.” In 1938 Mahatma Gandhi wrote a bracing and, at times, discomfiting essay on the claims...

African Culture and Decolonization (Critical South) This book is a collection of essays and speeches by Mário Pinto de Andrade, the Angolan literary critic, cultural theorist and political activist and...

From the writer crowned one of the smartest, funniest voices in modern America, this hotly anticipated debut collection of essays offers “a precious glimpse into how Ziwe’s uniquely fearless mind...