Essays

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...

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...

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...

In this collection of essays on African and Caribbean literature, culture, and politics, Ngugi wa Thiong'o delivers a groundbreaking critique of colonialism and capitalism in postcolonial Africa. In these essays,...

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...

'Far from being the pious injunction of a Utopian dreamer, the command to love one's enemy is an absolute necessity for our survival.' Advocating love as strength and non-violence as...

In 20 short books, Penguin Classics brings you the new canon of great environmental works Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the...

The Montgomery Story The inspiring account of the march towards American Civil Rights, as told by Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. described Stride Toward Freedom as "the...

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...

A breakthrough work of social and cultural criticism from one of the foremost intellectuals of his era Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his...

Voices from Within the VeilLegendary black scholar W.E.B. Du Bois's most passionate and searing work denouncing the global color line."I have been in the world, but not of it," W.E.B....

A LANDMARK WORK OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. A GLOBAL BESTSELLER. STILL AS RELEVANT TODAY. Ever since its first publication in 1992, The End of History and the Last Man has provoked...

The essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde The woman's place of power within each of us is neither white nor surface; it is dark, it...

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact as Frantz Fanon. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial and Black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks...

The dazzling essays of the beloved, subversive Chinese writer Wang Xiaobo, a continual bestseller in China, now in English for the first time Wang Xiaobo made his name as a...

Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century. Written at the height of the Algerian war for independence from...