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The Man Who Made Plants Write: Essays by Jagadish Chandra Bose cover image
Jagadish Chandra Bose

The Man Who Made Plants Write

$61.95
$61.95
Good Woman: A Reckoning cover image
Savala Nolan

Good Woman: A Reckoning

$24.99
$24.99
Crip Stories: An anthology of disabled writers cover image
Beau Windon, Laura Pettenuzzo, Misbah Wolf, Katie Hansord

Crip Stories: An anthology of disabled writers

$34.99
$34.99
BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship (Inklings) cover image
Anahit Behrooz

BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship

$24.99
$24.99
In Praise of Shadows and Other Essays
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

In Praise of Shadows and Other Essays

$27.99
$27.99
Freud and the Non-European
Edward W. Said

Freud and the Non-European

$26.99
$26.99
Representations of the Intellectual
Edward W. Said

Representations of the Intellectual

$29.99
$29.99
Book cover of 'Changing My Mind' by Zadie Smith with decorative text and minimal background
Zadie Smith

Changing My Mind

$26.99
$26.99
How I Know White People are Crazy and Other Stories: Notes from a Frustrated Black Psychologist cover image
Dr. Jonathan Lassiter

How I Know White People are Crazy and Other Stories

$55.00
$55.00
Ai Weiwei on Censorship
Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei on Censorship

$29.99
$29.99
In Good Taste cover image
Mallika Basu

In Good Taste

$27.99
$27.99
Black Thoughts Matter
Chelsea Watego

Black Thoughts Matter

$35.00
$35.00
What We Owe the Water: It's Time for a Fossil Fuel Treaty: Vantage Point Issue 4 cover image
Kumi Naidoo

What We Owe the Water

$19.99
$19.99
Nation of Strangers
Ece Temelkuran

Nation of Strangers

$34.99
$34.99
We Will Rise Again: Speculative Stories and Essays on Protest, Resistance, and Hope cover image
Annalee Newitz, Karen Lord, Malka Older

We Will Rise Again

$34.99
$34.99
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work
Edwidge Danticat

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

$29.99
$29.99
We See Things They’ll Never See: Love, Hope, and Neurodiversity cover image
Chantelle Jessica Lewis, Jason Arday

We See Things They’ll Never See: Love, Hope, and Neurodiversity

$37.99
$37.99
The Big Payback
Marcus Ryder and Lenny Henry

The Big Payback

$26.99
$26.99
Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future cover image
George Yancy

Until Our Lungs Give Out: Conversations on Race, Justice, and the Future

$29.99
$29.99
Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The cover image
Audre Lorde

The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House

$9.99
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Oceans Between Us: Pacific Peoples and Racism in Aotearoa cover image
Sereana Naepi

Oceans Between Us: Pacific Peoples and Racism in Aotearoa

$39.95
$39.95
Books of Mana: 180 Maori-Authored Books of Significance cover image
Jacinta Ruru, Angela Wanhalla, Jeanette Wikaira

Books of Mana: 180 Maori-Authored Books of Significance

$69.95
$69.95
No Is Not a Lonely Utterance
Sara Ahmed

No Is Not a Lonely Utterance

$55.00
$55.00
An End to Suffering
Pankaj Mishra

An End to Suffering

$26.99
$26.99
To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) cover image
Viet Thanh Nguyen

To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other

$47.99
$47.99
Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color cover image
Denne Michele Norris

Both/And: Essays by Trans and Gender-Nonconforming Writers of Color

$59.99
$59.99
Magically Black and Other Essays cover image
Jerald Walker

Magically Black and Other Essays

$34.99
$34.99
Not Quite White in the Head
Melissa Lucashenko

Not Quite White in the Head

$39.99
$39.99
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas

$45.00
$45.00
Book cover of 'Dead and Alive' by Zadie Smith with a black and white photo of the author turned away, wearing a black headscarf on a gray background.
Zadie Smith

Dead and Alive: Essays

$36.99
$36.99
Every Day I Read
Hwang Bo-reum

Every Day I Read

$24.99
$24.99
Design Against Racism: Creating Work That Transforms Communities cover image
Omari Souza

Design Against Racism

$37.99
$37.99
First Nations Writing
Jeanine Leane, Dan Bourchier

First Nations Writing

$34.99
$34.99
Authority: Essays on Being Right
Andrea Long Chu

Authority: Essays on Being Right

$49.99
$49.99
This Compulsion in Us
Tina Makereti

This Compulsion in Us

$43.95
$43.95
Portrait of an Island on Fire cover image
Ariel Saramandi

Portrait of an Island on Fire

$32.99
$32.99
Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power
Byung-Chul Han

Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power

$26.99
$26.99
Somebody is Walking on Your Grave
Mariana Enriquez

Somebody is Walking on Your Grave

$34.99
$34.99
Don't Ask the Trees for Their Names: Stories of Leaving and Becoming cover image
Oula Ghannoum, Loubna Haikal

Don't Ask the Trees for Their Names

$34.99
$34.99
The Activism of Art: A Decentered Anthology cover image
Stephen Duncombe, Dipti Desai

The Activism of Art: A Decentered Anthology

$39.99
$39.99
Sing a Black Girl’s Song: The Unpublished Works cover image
Ntozake Shange

Sing a Black Girl’s Song

$24.99
$24.99
My Dear Kabul: The incredible and courageous diary of an Afghan women's writing group during the Fall of Kabul, as featured on Dua Lipa's Service95 cover image
Untold

My Dear Kabul

$24.99
$24.99
Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue
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Yōko Tawada

Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue

$29.99
$29.99
Daughters of Latin America: An International Anthology of Writing by Latine Women cover image
Sandra Guzman

Daughters of Latin America

$42.99
$42.99
Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance cover image
Gary Younge

Pigeonholed: Creative Freedom as an Act of Resistance

$14.99
$14.99
Tales from the Heart
Maryse Condé

Tales from the Heart

$14.99
$14.99
The Maverick Pig
Wang Xiaobo

The Maverick Pig

$14.99
$14.99
A Lady in Kyoto (Penguin Archive) cover image
Sei Shōnagon

A Lady in Kyoto

$14.99
$14.99
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