Palestinian authors

On Palestine and Narrative An outstanding and moving essay on the Palestinian struggle, Edward Said and the power of narrative FROM THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION-SHORTLISTED AND RSL ENCORE AWARD-WINNING...

From the organizers of the Palestine Festival of Literature, this anthology of essays connects Palestinian resistance with global freedom struggles against settler colonialism and calls on us to think more...

A collection of essays exploring what it means to be a young secular Muslim woman today by N.S. Nuseibeh who reflects on her ancestor Nusayba, the only woman warrior to...

Background, Details, and Analysis A radical analysis of Palestinian resistance from one of their most influential voices. Revisit Ghassan Kanafani’s pivotal text in a new English edition. Kanafani presents a...

Light in Gaza gathers a collective Palestinian vision of what a future Gaza could be. As global solidarity for Palestinian liberation grows, the desire for Gaza-centered texts makes this book...

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...

Orientalism is one of the greatest and most influential of books of ideas to be published since the end of the European empires. For generations now it has defined our understanding...

Kuracca — meaning white sulphur crested cockatoo — is a multi-lingual anthology featuring eleven Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women writing poetry, prose, songs and stories about their unique lives....

AN NPR BOOK-OF-THE-DAY • A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY STAFF PICK • A NYLON MUST-READ • A FORTUNE NEW BOOK TO READ IN AUGUST “And, at the center of it all, am...

Acclaimed Nigerian Writers on the Home, Identity and Culture They Know To define Nigeria is to tell a half-truth. Many have tried, but most have concluded that it is impossible...

A Clarion Call for Equality This is more than a book — it's an incitement to change people's perceptions. BLACK BRITISH LIVES MATTER is a clarion call for equality, from...

A young queer science writer on some of the ocean's strangest creatures and what they can teach us about human empathy and survivalJoin science journalist Sabrina Imbler on an astonishing...

Winner of the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Prize for Non-fiction Essays on Inheritance I have come to see that I am an argumentative person who is frequently convinced that my angle,...

Abolitionist Queer Strategies Foreword by Mimi Thi Nguyen Surviving the Future is a collection of the most current ideas in radical queer movement work and revolutionary queer theory. Beset by...

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...

A Decade of Arguments, Criticism and Minding Other People's Business Since the publication of the groundbreaking Bad Feministand Hunger, Roxane Gay has continued to tackle the big issues embroiling society...

One of the most acclaimed essayists writing today on the political hysteria plaguing the West Decades of violence and chaos have generated a political and intellectual hysteria ranging from imperial...

Inspired by environmental activism, this new collection blends fiction, essay and poetry to make a powerful and very personal appeal for change.If we continue to live as we do now,...

Echoesis a lyrical collection of personal essays which references art and literature, pop culture and nostalgia. It gathers small joys, from a figure-hugging 'disco dress' to learning to sing Koo...

Exposing Our Untold Mental Health Crisis An investigation into the failings of Australia's mental healthcare system, grounded in a personal story of a mother daughter relationship Journalist Elfy Scott grew...

Takatāpui, Two-Spirit, and Indigenous LGBTQI+ well-being In these rigorous and challenging essays, writers from Aotearoa and Turtle Island (Canada and the United States of America) explore the well-being of takatāpui,...

Kimberley-born Indigenous business leader Charles Prouse has spent 30 years working in Indigenous affairs across the corporate, government and non-profit sectors. He's been asked many times how to fix 'the...

A celebration of the unsung hero of the plant word and an immersive journey through the British wetlandsGlowflake, Rocket, Small Skies, Kind Spears, Marilyn . . .Moss is known as...

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....

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...

From the brilliant mind of the creator and star of I May Destroy You and Chewing Gum comes a passionate declaration against fitting in. Michaela Coel's MacTaggart Lecture touched a...

Ten Years of First Nations Storytelling An anthology of writing produced by Indigenous creatives from Western Sydney that has been praised by ArtsHub as 'a light shone on First Nations...

A new paperback edition of Hanif Kureishi's wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays. This collection begins in the early 1980s with The Rainbow Sign, which was written as the Introduction to the...

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...

A tale of ten spices and a curry powder A spice story and compilation of culinary meditations After years of journeying around market stalls and pop-ups, O Tama Carey finally...

10 Choices for a Better Now This is not about how we messed things up. This is about what kind of world we want to live in now, and the...

The ultimate book about growing up in Australia — a choice selection of wonderful stories and recollections This special collection is the perfect addition to Black Inc.'s definitive 'Growing Up'...

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 lyrical, poetic essay collection that blends memoir with powerful writing on the natural world, taking us from London to New Zealand, Shanghai to Malaysia — from the winner of...

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 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...

Alive in the Wilderness Black Lion begins in rural South Africa where a deeply traumatic childhood experience — a cousin being dragged away by a crocodile — should have turned...

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...

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 within mental health An unprecedented look at the lived experience of mental health in creative work, as told by writers, comedians and public figures We are full of worlds...

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...

'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...

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

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...

'These stories form part of our collective history, the way we speak of and live culture still today, and the importance of passing on such stories to younger generations.' —Dr....

What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD What would make a society drain its public swimming baths and fill them with...

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,...

'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...

On GrowingAn uplifting and inspirational call to arms for a different way of growing, eating and livingFrom the roots of the idea for her exceptional farm through to dreams of...

*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...