Essays

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...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Air conditioning aspires to be unnoticed. Yet, by manipulating the air around us,...

A definitive volume expanded and updated to do justice to the four decade career of one of the most important cultural and intellectual thinkers of the 21st century The renowned...

In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries and dramatically cutting the number of refugees allowed to resettle...

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

'I am a woman's rights. I have plowed and reaped and husked and chopped and mowed, and can any man do more than that? I am as strong as any...

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...

A book aimed at the millions of middle-aged white men who are suddenly awakening to race and racism. White men are finally realizing that simply not being racist isn’t enough...

Reflections on Self-Delusion A Times book of the yearA Guardian book of the year What happens to our behaviour when we live most of our lives online? What does it...

Translated by Gila Walker One might say that the womb of death — the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonisation — gave birth to Black populations. Taking this observation as her...

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...

Featuring contributions from Candice Carty-Williams, Jessica Horn, Ebele Okobi, Funmi Fetto and Freddie Harrel. In the vein of Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist, but wholly its own, Girl is a provocative,...

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...

An incisive, intersectional essay anthology that celebrates and examines romance and romantic media through the lens of Black readers, writers, and cultural commentators, edited by Book Riot columnist and librarian...

Spanning more than 35 years of work, the first comprehensive collection of essays, criticism, and articles by the legendary author of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston, showcasing the evolution...

Claudia Rankine's 'skyscraper in the literature on racism' (Christian Science Monitor) At the theatre, around the dinner table, in the airport and in the voting booth, what fractures lie beneath...

*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...

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...

'Learning to mother at the end of the world is an infinite toggle between wanting to make you feel safe and needing you to know that the earth and its...

An Empowering and Celebratory Portrait of Black Women — from Josephine Baker to The Fresh Prince of Bel Air's Aunt Viv to Cardi B.INCLUDES A FOREWORD WITH CLARA AMFOIn 2013,...

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...

Now in paperback, Claudia Rankine's 'skyscraper in the literature on racism' (Christian Science Monitor)At the theatre, around the dinner table, in the airport and in the voting booth, what fractures...

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

'Pink is my favourite colour. I used to say my favourite colour was black to be cool, but it is pink — all shades of pink. If I have an...

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...

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...

'This is the kind of book that make you different when you're done.' - Ashley C. Ford, New York Times bestselling author of Somebody's Daughter 'From the womb, we must repeat with regularity...

Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter? It’s Not About the Burqa started...

A revelatory treatise from the Women’s Prize-winning, Booker-shortlisted author of A Tale for the Time Being about how her face has shaped and been shaped by her life.What did your...

Essays at the Crossroads of RaceTwo-time Booker Shortlistee and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan delivers a searing analysis of the relationship between race and art.History is a construction. What happens...

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...

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....

Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine Described by Anne Patchett as 'life-changing', with fans such as Elizabeth Gilbert and tipped by Oprah Magazine as 'formidable 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...

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...

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...

In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks and Other Astonishments A sparkling collection of essays about the natural world, illustrated throughout — a magnificent bestiary, and an unforgettable book of sustenance,...

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...

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 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...

From the author of Women, Race, and Class, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world conflicts In these newly...

Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves Remember that moment when you first encountered a character who seemed to be written just for you? That feeling of belonging remains with readers the...

Feminism in the Twenty-First CenturyA landmark book that provides us with a new way of thinking about sex, from one of the most exciting and important young intellectuals at work...

Passionate Politics A concise argument for the enduring importance of the feminist movement today by one of the world's leading feminist writers 'Simply put, feminism is a movement to end...

A critical collection of conversations with Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones and other Black women writers that changed the scope of Black literature in the 20th century and beyond....