“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…
“Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 into upper-crust black Chicago. Her father was head of pediatrics…
“In Tales of the Metric System, Coovadia explores a turbulent South Africa from 1970 into the present. He takes his home country’s…
“Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure is a multifaceted literary response to the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown…
“A Little Life follows four college classmates-broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition as they move to New…
“Lindanathi and his friends—Cecelia and Ruan—make their living working low-paying jobs and selling anti-retroviral drugs (during the period…
“This dark and suspenseful novel tells the story of a fictitious West African country caught in the grip of civil war. The dispassionate…
“It’s 1989 and Rae Earl is a fat, boy-mad seventeen-year-old girl, living in Stamford, Lincolnshire, with her mum and their deaf white cat…
“Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th-century Ghana. Effia will be…