Collection: Non-Fiction

The extraordinary story of an unjustly forgotten group of Black men in Pittsburgh who became the first paramedics in America, saving lives and changing the...

A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by critically acclaimed author and essayist, Jia Tolentino. The Best American series, launched in 1915, is the...

An electrifying memoir about the demise of a singular family—a stunning new book by Gabrielle Hamilton, author of the New York Times bestseller and James Beard Award...

A vibrant, deeply researched biography of A’Lelia Walker—daughter of Madam C.J. Walker and herself a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance—written by her great-granddaughter.Dubbed the...

A New York Times bestseller • Winner of the Hillman Book Prize and Robert F Kennedy Book Award • Finalist for the LA Times Book Award •...

We stay fighting, even if we don't call it war. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea is a poet's memoir about family, survival, and...

  Fiery, funny, inviting and digressive, Sonny Simmons' memoir is a long overdue celebration of the famed New York free jazz pioneer Though his years...

Redressing the woeful under-recognition of a pioneering Black queer architect and artist This is an experimental illustrated reader exploring the work and legacy of American...

Mandii B and WeezyWTF, hosts of the Decisions, Decisions (formerly WHOREible Decisions) podcast, deliver a bold, unfiltered, and raw, sex-positive collection of relatable tales. They tackle everything from...

Album sleeve art from a transformative era in America's radical jazz culture, plus covers for recordings by Black poets, civil rights activists and experimental musicians...

The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the...

Welcome to the wondrous world of Vaginal Davis: visual artist, punk rocker, "drag terrorist" and genderqueer icon In Vaginal Davis' pioneering and incredibly diverse oeuvre,...

Selections from the extraordinary Studio Museum in Harlem Collection, accompanying the highly anticipated opening of the institution's first-ever purpose-built museum Meaning Matter Memory is a keepsake...

A moving, politically-charged memoir of surviving trauma and embracing the power of activism from MSNBC legal analyst and former New York City Mayoral candidate Maya...

A beautifully-written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration crisis: open the gates.Because of restrictive borders, human beings suffer and die....

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “No single book is as relevant to the present moment.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen“With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an...

Los Angeles Times BestsellerThis riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a “history from below, in the very best sense” as it celebrates the “grassroots heroes...

A comprehensive account of policing Black life in Canada and a vision for Black futures beyond surveillance and confinement.The bestselling first edition of Policing Black Lives became...

In the US, police conduct millions of traffic stops for reasons unrelated to safety. Study after study confirm that Black drivers experience higher rates of...

How a new "woke" elite uses the language of social justice to gain more power and status--without helping the marginalized and disadvantaged   Society has...

From “national treasure” (Steve Harvey) Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders, the ultimate playbook of inspiring personal stories, winning strategies, and the motivation required to help us “elevate...

A powerful, groundbreaking new history of Britain and the Caribbean, challenging existing thinking about British colonization and recontextualizing the twin stories of contemporary inequality in...

An essential collection spanning nearly twenty years of emphatic, fearlessly original poetry from one of America's most celebrated living writers. Drawing from six previously published...