Adrienne Kennedy looks back on the people and memories that shaped her work in a reflective autobiographical scrapbook. Fragments of text and photographs trace the making of an artist.

People and memories shape the making of a playwright.

A travel essay that moves down the Italian peninsula, weaving history, politics, folklore, food, architecture, art, and literature into a deeply personal cultural encounter.

Travel becomes a way to read culture and memory.

An anthology that gathers women's voices across time to reconsider war and peace. Through essays and testimonies, it brings the realities and hopes of the nuclear age into focus.

Women's voices open a view toward peace.

A debut poetry collection rooted in Warm Springs, the Columbia River, and family memory. Its compact poems layer landscape, ceremony, and survival into an intimate lyric sequence.

River, land, and memory rise in poems that feel almost prayerful.

A Chinese woman who emigrates to the United States splits her life into Mulberry and Peach in order to survive what she has seen. The novel turns exile, memory, and divided identity into an intricate portrait of dislocation.

Two selves, Mulberry and Peach, struggle inside one life.

Njeri traces a family history in Brooklyn and Harlem, moving through Black and West Indian kinship, ambition, and the pressure of racism. The memoir balances sharp wit with unsparing emotional detail.

Farewell is not an ending; it is a way into family history.

Through the life stories of fourteen Vietnamese-Americans, Freeman traces flight after the fall of Saigon, resettlement, and the burdens of memory. The book turns the refugee experience into a layered oral history.

Fourteen voices tell the life that begins after war ends.

Walter traces J. Raymond Jones, the 'Harlem Fox,' and the Tammany machine that shaped Black political power in New York. The book blends biography with urban political history.

A single political broker opens a window onto Harlem's power structure.

Walter traces J. Raymond Jones, the 'Harlem Fox,' and the Tammany machine that shaped Black political power in New York. The book blends biography with urban political history.

A single political broker opens a window onto Harlem's power structure.

A Black Star Series volume of prose poems and sketches that turns memory, place, and displacement into an intimate lyric voice.

Prose and poetry meet in a book where place-memory keeps surfacing.

An essay collection on Eugenio María de Hostos that moves across intellectual history, education, and literary criticism.

A collection that rereads Hostos in the present tense.

An anthropological study of nineteenth-century Tlingit potlatch and mortuary practice, tracing ritual, symbol, and social order.

Mortuary ritual becomes a key to social symbolism.

A historical study of black people and racial perception in ancient Rome, using literary and visual evidence to examine Roman social frameworks.

A reconsideration of black representation in Roman society.

A scholarly challenge to conventional accounts of classical civilization, arguing for Afroasiatic influence in the formation of Greek culture.

A starting point for a sustained challenge to classical orthodoxy.

An anthology of multicultural Los Angeles poets that brings the city’s plural cultures into view through poetry.

A poetry anthology that gathers the city’s many voices.

An anthology of multicultural Los Angeles poets that gives shape to fragmented city experience and immigrant community voices.

By gathering the city's language, the anthology brings Los Angeles into focus as a poetic landscape.

An autobiography told in the musician's own voice, speaking frankly about jazz, fame, drugs, racism, and private life.

The book traces the hidden side of jazz mythology in Miles Davis's own voice.

An anthology of traditional tales, short fiction, and critical writing by Native American women, showing both cultural continuity and contemporary voices.

It links tradition and contemporary writing, letting women's stories resonate across generations.

An anthology of poetry and prose by Asian American women that gathers a wide range of backgrounds and experiences into one volume.

Through the editors' vision, the book makes difference in voice itself a source of strength.

An anthology of poetry and prose by Asian American women that gathers a wide range of backgrounds and experiences into one volume.

Through the editors' vision, the book makes difference in voice itself a source of strength.

An anthology of poetry and prose by Asian American women that gathers a wide range of backgrounds and experiences into one volume.

Through the editors' vision, the book makes difference in voice itself a source of strength.