It’s exhilarating and shocking and even healing. “Reading one of Moniz’s stories is like holding your breath underwater while letting the salt sting your fresh wounds. This livewire debut depicts the sultry lives of Floridians in intergenerational tales that contemplate human connection, race, womanhood, inheritance, and the elemental darkness in us all, set among the cities and suburbs of the Sunshine State. “Reading these stories, you feel as if you’re sitting with a gifted storyteller while he spins yarns about the strange people living in his mind… Each protagonist seems simple and often shallow on the surface, but as the story progresses he unfurls into greater and frankly breathtaking complexity.”- New York Times
“Fanon’s theoretical genius, literary artistry, and political courage are undeniable.”-Cornel West, from the introductionĪ masterful, NAACP Image Award-winning collection of stories that showcases one of the country’s most beloved and acclaimed writers-Walter Mosley, the legendary author and winner of PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon, translated from the French by Richard PhilcoxĪ timeless, ferocious, and indispensable work of revolutionary anticolonial theory by the psychiatrist and political philosopher whom Angela Davis called the twentieth century’s “most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism.”
“Azumah Nelson’s poetic brilliance, his ability to balance the general and the specific, the ambient and the granular, makes for a salient achievement… Whether he’s describing a tense police encounter or lovers intertwined, when he’s great, which is often, his descriptive powers are truly special.”-Gabriel Bump, New York Times Keep an eye out for Azumah Nelson’s Small Worlds, forthcoming this summer. This is the work of a major voice, a brilliant talent.”-Laura van den BergĪ stunning, virtuosic debut about two young Black artists in London falling in and out of love, hailed as one of the most essential debut novels of recent years. “Epic in ambition and scope, a sweeping tale that illuminates pivotal historical periods…Lauren Francis-Sharma brings her characters and their tangled histories to life with tremendous precision and sensitivity.
“These essays, ranging across continents and time, so broad in their themes and so deep in their perceptions, are essential reading, combining Aminatta Forna’s great gifts as a storyteller and her razor-sharp analytical skills.”-Salman Rushdieīook of the Little Axe by Lauren Francis-SharmaĪmbitious and masterfully wrought, Book of the Little Axe is an incredible journey, spanning decades and oceans from Trinidad to the American West during the tumultuous days of warring colonial powers and westward expansion.
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“Dynamic… Examines personal and professional moments in which silence revealed a truth about race and oppression.”- New YorkerĪ stunning collection of essays from one of our most important literary voices, The Window Seat explores border crossings both literal and philosophical, our relationship with the natural world, and the stories that we tell ourselves. “This book is a straight-up page-turner… A classic war story told simply and well, its meanings not forced but allowed to bubble up.”-Dwight Garner, New York TimesĪn acclaimed novelist and poet’s deeply moving collection of linked essays that blend memoir and literary commentary to explore the silences that exist in our conversations about race, sex, and gender. Happy reading - be sure to follow us on Twitter, where every day this month we’ll be sharing a different book we love by a Black author.īlack Cloud Rising by David Wright FaladéĪ compelling and important historical novel that takes us back to an extraordinary moment when enslaved people were shedding their bonds and embracing freedom, with powerful depictions of the camaraderie forged between fighting men and heartrending scenes of sacrifice and courage. It’s Black History Month! You might be able to guess how we’re celebrating - by reading! Here are ten books worth reading, re-reading, and celebrating - from nonfiction classics that changed the world to hot new historical novels, debut voices to past masters, stories of the American West to narratives of the U.K., Sierra Leone, and beyond.
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