A collection of essays, prose, interviews, and a lecture that moves across surrealism, postcolonial history, and intellectual history. It foregrounds an attempt to expand the essay form itself.

A laboratory of thought that expands what the essay can do.

A satire in which a man who refuses to stand for the anthem is swept into a frenzy of patriotism and media outrage. A private gesture becomes a national spectacle.

One man’s refusal exposes a fever of patriotism.

A guidebook to San Francisco Chinatown that combines history and architecture. It brings neighborhood history and walking routes together in one volume.

Walk the history of Chinatown block by block.

A story of an isolated orchardist whose life shifts when he encounters two wounded sisters. Violence, protection, loss, and repair accumulate quietly.

Two wounded sisters arrive at an isolated orchard.

A debut poetry collection that frames a brother’s addiction and family pain through mythic imagination and humor. Mojave memory collides with domestic reality.

Family pain is lit by myth and humor.

A novel set on an Ojibwe reservation, following a boy who searches for justice after violence upends his family. It is both a coming-of-age story and a portrait of communal harm.

A boy’s search for justice reveals a community’s wound.

A history book that rereads the American Revolution from the perspective of Black freedom struggle. It treats independence and emancipation as two revolutions unfolding together.

The Revolution is reread from the side of slavery and emancipation.

Judy Grahn recounts her life as a poet and activist, tracing the making of lesbian and feminist communities alongside her own artistic and political development.

A poet’s life becomes the record of a movement.

Joy Harjo traces her path to poetry through childhood memories, trauma, tribal myth, music, and ancestry in a memoir shaped by spiritual coming-of-age.

Poetry and myth illuminate the shape of one life.

Set in Albuquerque, this novel follows Lupe, a pregnant block captain who writes letters to her unborn daughter while activism, migration, family, and imagination shape her neighborhood and her life.

Letters to an unborn daughter carry the story forward.

A poetry collection centered on prayer, spirituality, and inward searching. It has a plainspoken urgency that tests how far language can reach beyond the everyday.

The poems trace the deeper places of inward life.

An experimental poetry collection that folds mythic sensibility and contemporary experience together from an Inupiat perspective. Memory of land and community intersects in sharp, vivid images.

Arctic sensibility meets the experimental energy of contemporary poetry.

A work of nonfiction that tracks the FBI’s surveillance and infiltration in Berkeley through exhaustive reporting. Political history around Ronald Reagan and the student movement comes alive through investigative journalism.

Investigative reporting digs into the dark side of political history.

A collaborative book of Cherokee stories and teachings told by elders. It binds land, memory, and communal knowledge into one volume.

Storytelling and oral tradition carry Cherokee knowledge forward.

A new expanded collected edition of Lew Welch’s poetry. Wanderings, spirituality, and verbal rhythm echo together like a single ring.

Beat poetry reverberates as a single ring.