A biography of John Oliver Killens that traces the history and influence of Black literary activism through his life and work.

A writer’s life becomes the history of a movement.

A wide-ranging study of Muslim life in the United States that examines religion, immigration, and identity, and reframes American history through that lens.

A reexamination of America through Muslim lives.

A historical narrative that reconstructs the mid-19th-century world of slavery through fugitives, kidnapped Black Northerners, and free people of color.

The wounds of history are retold through many voices.

A ten-part novel that traces Asian American activism and community memory in San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s.

A city’s history emerges in ten linked movements.

A study of the relationship between African American writing and the classical tradition, showing how Black literature grew through, not apart from, inherited literary forms.

The classical tradition is not outside Black literature.

A study of the relationship between African American writing and the classical tradition, showing how Black literature grew through, not apart from, inherited literary forms.

The classical tradition is not outside Black literature.

An indigenous artist’s journey of creativity and self-discovery unfolds from the White Earth Reservation to Paris.

The journey becomes a question of how art is made.

A road novel that moves between a long-haul truck driver’s present and his haunted past, where war, friendship, and family wounds remain unresolved.

Only memory survives the snow.

A collection of Ivan Arguelles’s early poems that highlights his experimental reach and historical imagination.

These poems cut sharply through the shadows of history.

The first volume of an English translation of Jean Racine’s plays, with commentary and notes that re-create the dramatic force of the original in English.

Translation becomes criticism in its own right.

A memoiristic exploration of family history, cultural borders, and the making of a bicultural self.

A family story becomes a map of the self.

A sensuous poetry collection that links motherhood, the body, labor, art, and politics through intense and compressed imagery.

Body and language burn with the same heat.

A large anthology that traces the history and culture of Afro-Latin people in the United States through essays, memoir, journalism, poetry, and interviews.

A hidden community comes into focus through many voices.

A large anthology that traces the history and culture of Afro-Latin people in the United States through essays, memoir, journalism, poetry, and interviews.

A hidden community comes into focus through many voices.

A lyric memoir about motherhood, work, art, and caregiving, told in fragments that sharpen the book’s emotional clarity.

Motherhood is more than a single role.