“It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer…
“‘In a single year, my father left us twice. The first time, to end his marriage, and the second, when he took his own life. I was ten…
“For 100 days, Juliane Okot Bitek recorded the lingering nightmare of the Rwandan genocide in a poem–each poem recalling the senseless loss…
“Acclaimed Nigerian-born author and poet Chris Abani has given us a profound and gorgeously wrought short memoir that navigates the stories…
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“Ocean Vuong’s first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial ‘big’--and very human--subjects of romance, family, memory,…
“Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this…
“Threading My Prayer Rug is a richly textured reflection on what it is to be a Muslim in America today. Beginning with a sweetly funny,…
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“Steve Howard departed for the Sudan in the early 1980s as an American graduate student beginning a three-year journey in which he would…
“In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections…
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“Recorded over six years, Raising Bertie delivers an authentic and tender portrait of the lives of three young boys as they face a…