A historical novel set in Civil War-era New York, following riots and ethnic conflict as the city veers toward violence.

Ambition and hatred ignite the city into riot.

A novel set on the reservation, following Louise White Elk through love, violence, and the urge to escape community pressures.

A sharp voice for freedom sounds inside a closed community.

A memoir tracing the path that led Daniel Ellsberg to leak the Pentagon Papers, drawing on his own work inside the military and defense establishment. It confronts the collision of war, state secrecy, and conscience from an insider's perspective.

Where state secrecy collides head-on with personal conscience.

An anthology of fiction, poetry, memoir, and commentary that maps more than two centuries of Latino presence in California. It brings together many voices to show history, migration, and cultural continuity.

A two-century sweep of Latino literary presence in California.

A sourcebook on St. Lawrence Island Yupik heritage and history, bringing together oral tradition and research materials to trace lines of cultural continuity.

A sourcebook that puts Yupik memory and history onto the page.

A collection of nine stories set around San Francisco's Mission District and beyond, exploring love, loss, memory, and desire. Through urban Latino life, it portrays both intimacy and estrangement.

Nine stories gradually reveal the shapes of love and loss.

A critical account of Rudy Giuliani's mayoralty and public persona that reads the dynamics of New York City politics through his rise.

A dismantling of Giuliani's political mythology.

A collection of stories set in an Italian-American neighborhood before its migration to the suburbs, exploring immigrant memory, family, and the cost of assimilation.

An immigrant neighborhood becomes a whole world of memory and loss.

A study that traces the writings and statements of jazz musicians themselves, recasting Black musicians as critics and thinkers as well as performers. It challenges fixed ideas about what jazz is and who gets to define it.

Jazz is read as thought, not just performance.

A historical novel that reimagines Frederick Douglass through the perspectives of Anna, his wife, and Ottilie Assing, his long-term confidante and lover. It explores freedom, love, and betrayal after slavery.

Frederick Douglass is seen anew through two women’s voices.

A memoir about riding the bus with a sister with an intellectual disability, reflecting on family, care, and the meaning hidden in routine.

As the bus moves through repeated stops, the shape of family becomes clearer.

A memoir of growing up in a remote Gwich'in family in Alaska and watching language, daily life, and community ties change under outside pressure.

A northern coming-of-age memoir shaped by family memory and cultural continuity.

A review publication founded by Max Rodriguez to spotlight Black literature and culture. It has served as a forum for criticism and discovery within the African-American reading public.

A review journal connecting readers with Black books.