A linked collection that follows international volunteers in Nicaragua during the final offensive against Somoza, centered on Ulises, a Chicano from Los Angeles.

Revolution is seen through the lives of volunteers on the ground.

bell hooks links postmodern criticism to Black liberation and cultural politics, showing why race and gender cannot be separated from theory.

Theory stays grounded in lived struggle throughout the book.

Bruce Wright uses his courtroom experience to challenge racial bias in the American criminal justice system.

A judge turns his own experience into a direct critique of the courts.

A collection of testimonies from Chicano Vietnam veterans compiled by Charley Trujillo. Through enlistment stories, battlefield experience, and the fractures left after return, it traces the wounds and memories war left on individuals and communities.

A record that links battlefield memory through the veterans' own voices.

Through introductions and interviews with six Black poets, D. H. Melhem traces the social consciousness and aesthetics of Black American poetry. The book shows where poet identity intersects with community, politics, religion, and feminism.

From six poets' voices, the outline of Black American poetry comes into view.

Edited by Deborah Keenan and Roseann Lloyd, this anthology gathers women poets writing about migration and exile. It layers many voices around loss of home, displacement, and the unstable idea of belonging.

More than seventy women poets illuminate the feelings that live between home and exile.

Set in Marcos-era Manila, this ensemble novel follows movie stars, politicians, servants, and young people as their lives intersect and collide. Beneath the glitter of pop culture, the distortions of power, violence, and class come into view.

A dazzling narrative that renders Manila's noise and corruption in vivid detail.

Inspired by the 1985 MOVE bombing, John Edgar Wideman's novel follows writer Cudjoe as he searches for the lone survivor amid the ruins and his own memories. It confronts urban violence and loss at the center of the story.

From the fragments of a burned city, questions of memory and responsibility emerge.

An early poetry collection by Joy Harjo. From a Creek perspective, it reworks love, violence, loss, and belonging to place in language that is both mythic and deeply embodied.

The intensity of love and war overlaps with the memory of place.

Karen Tei Yamashita's debut novel uses outrageous characters such as a Japanese man, a three-armed CEO, and a Brazilian peasant to satirize the destruction of the Amazon rainforest and the absurdities of global capital.

A work of invention and satire that radically reframes the future of the rainforest.

Berlin's first major collection gathers stories from 1960 to 1990 and shows how sharply she could turn fragments of ordinary life into fiction.

Everyday life becomes intensely alive in these stories.

Mary Brave Bird recounts her life as a Lakota woman and her participation in the American Indian Movement, including the Wounded Knee occupation.

Personal memory and Native history move together through the book.

A collection of essays and stories that keeps working-class women, labor, and political struggle at the center of Le Sueur's writing.

The work of living becomes the subject of literature.

This book gathers work from the Mill Hunk Herald magazine and preserves labor writing from a decade of grassroots publishing.

A working-class magazine is turned into a collected book.

The first book-length publication of recorded Tlingit oratory, presented with facing English translation, annotations, photographs, and elder biographies.

Oral tradition is preserved with care and historical depth.

A collaborative edition that records Tlingit oral tradition and opens it to readers through translation and annotation. It gathers ceremonial speech together with photographs and biographical notes, presenting how Indigenous cultural memory has been carried forward.

A book that passes ceremonial speech to the next generation through translation and annotation.

Miller offers a critical study of Langston Hughes that traces the poet's artistic vision across lyric, political, and dramatic modes.

A close reading of Hughes's imagination as an artist.

Centolella's first poetry collection, selected by Denise Levertov, looks for wonder in the everyday and in the communal life of the Bay Area.

The poems stay grounded while reaching for the sacramental.