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A Ghost in the Throat

Doireann Ní Ghríofa

A History of My Brief Body

Billy-Ray Belcourt

A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life

George Saunders

A Whore's Manifesto: An Anthology of Writing and Artwork by Sex Workers

Kay Kassirer

Aftermath

Preti Taneja

All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes

Maya Angelou

Awards for Good Boys: Tales of Dating, Double Standards, and Doom

Shelby Lorman

Azadi: Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus (Expanded Second Edition)

Arundhati Roy

Azadi: Fascism, Fiction, and Freedom in the Time of the Virus (Expanded Second Edition)

Arundhati Roy

Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World

Eliane Brum

Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man

Joshua Bennett

Black and Female: Essays

Tsitsi Dangarembga

Black Futures

Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham

Black Women Writers at Work

Claudia Tate (Editor) and Tillie Olsen (Foreword)

Blind Spot

Teju Cole

Bullet Points and Punch Lines: The Most Important Commentary Ever Written on the Epic American Tragicomedy

Lee Camp

Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021

Margaret Atwood

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

Margo Jefferson

Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir

Margo Jefferson

Craft and Conscience: How to Write About Social Issues

Kavita Das

Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work

Edwidge Danticat

Create Dangerously: The Power and Responsibility of the Artist

Albert Camus

Critical Writings

James Joyce

Crying in H Mart: A Memoir

Michelle Zauner

Dark Museum

María Negroni and Michelle Gil-Montero (Translator)

Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing

Pete Davis

Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

Savala Nolan

Du Bois's Telegram: Literary Resistance and State Containment

Juliana Spahr (Author)

El origen de los otros

Toni Morrison

Essays on the Self

Virginia Woolf

Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry

Adrienne Rich and Sandra M. Gilbert (Editor)

Excavation: A Memoir

Wendy C. Ortiz

Fear and Loathing in America : The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

Hunter S. Thompson

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

Hunter S. Thompson

Feel Free

Zadie Smith

Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker

Alice Walker

Gentrifier: A Memoir

Anne Elizabeth Moore

Guidebook to Relative Strangers

Camille T. Dungy

Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

Sheila Liming

High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir

Edgar Gomez

Home Bound: An Uprooted Daughter's Reflections on Belonging

Vanessa A. Bee

How To Be Autistic

Charlotte Amelia Poe

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

Kiese Laymon (Author)

How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America: Essays

Kiese Laymon

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays

Alexander Chee

Hummingbirds in the Trenches

Kondwani Fidel

I Know What's Best for You

Shelly Oria

I'm Telling the Truth, But I'm Lying: Essays

Bassey Ikpi

If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?

Cynthia Heimel

If You Love Baltimore, It Will Love You Back: 171 Short, But True Stories

Ron Cassie

In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women

Alice Walker

In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation

Isabel Zapata

Inciting Joy: Essays

Ross Gay

Inventing the Enemy: Essays

Umberto Eco

Journal of Radical Permission: A Daily Guide for Following Your Soul's Calling

Adrienne Maree Brown and Sonya Renee Taylor

Just Us: An American Conversation

Claudia Rankine

Land of Women

María Sánchez and Curtis Bauer

Little Foxes Took Up Matches

Katya Kazbek

Migratory Birds

Mariana Oliver and Julia Sanchez

Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Cathy Park Hong

Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim

Robert "Iceberg Slim" Beck

New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of 20th and 21st Century Writing by Women of African Descent

Margaret Busby

New Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Writing by Women of African Descent

Margaret Busby (Editor)

No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies: A Lyric Essay

Julian Aguon

No Time to Spare: Thinking about What Matters

Ursula K. Le Guin

Nothing Personal

James Baldwin and Imani Perry

Novelist as a Vocation

Haruki Murakami

Of Walking in Ice

Werner Herzog

On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

Maggie Nelson

On the Inconvenience of Other People

Lauren Berlant

Ordinary Notes

Christina Sharpe

Pathetic Literature

Eileen Myles (Editor)

Pimp: The Story of My Life

Robert "Iceberg Slim" Beck

See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love

Valarie Kaur

Sir

Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle

Small Predators

Jennifer Ilse Black

Social Poetics

Mark Nowak

Some of Us Did Not Die: Selected Essays of June Jordan

June Jordan

Something That May Shock and Discredit You

Daniel Mallory Ortberg

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry

South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story

Nikole Hannah-Jones and The New York Times Magazine

The Antiracist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonizethe Creative Classroom

Felicia Rose Chavez

The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry

Harold Bloom

The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

The Book of Beginnings and Endings

Jenny Boully

The Breaks: An Essay

Julietta Singh

The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated

Ralph Ellison, John F. Callahan (Editor), and Saul Bellow (Preface)

The Edward Dahlberg Reader

Edward Dahlberg and Paul Carroll (editor)

The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin

The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor and Sally Fitzgerald

The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom

Toni Morrison and Zadie Smith (introduction)

The Origin of Others

Toni Morrison (Author)

The Properties of Perpetual Light

Julian Aguon

The Reckonings: Essays

Lacy M. Johnson

The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

Toni Morrison

The Toni Morrison Book Club

Juda Bennett, Winnifred Brown-Glaude, Casssandra Jackson, and Piper Kendrix Williams

The Undocumented Americans

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio

The Visible Unseen: Essays

Andrea Chapela and Kelsi Vanada (Translator)

These Possible Lives

Fleur Jaeggy and Minna Proctor

They Called Me 299-359: Poetry by the Incarcerated Youth of Free Minds

Free Minds Writers

Thick: And Other Essays

Tressie McMillan Cottom

Things We Didn't Talk About When I Was a Girl

Jeannie Vanasco

Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays

Durga Chew-Bose

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals

Alexis Pauline Gumbs

We Speak for Ourselves: A Word from Forgotten Black America

D. Watkins

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction; Introduction by John Leonard

Joan Didion

What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man's Blues

Clifford Thompson

Writing with Caca

Luis Felipe Fabre and JD Plueker (translator)

You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays

Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates (Editor), and Genevieve West (Editor)

You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Works 2011-2021

Alaa Abd el-Fattah

You Must Set Forth at Dawn: A Memoir

Wole Soyinka

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