A novel set against the Nigerian civil war that uses family life and romance to show the collision between private lives and national crisis.

War slowly changes the shape of love and family.

A poetry collection that traces racial violence in the American South through fragmented, collage-like verse and documentary material.

Fragments of testimony make the memory of violence hard to erase.

A historical study that rechecks the John Henry legend against archival evidence and questions the line between myth and fact.

Beyond the legend lies a history of labor and racial exploitation.

A sweeping study of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil-rights movement that reconstructs a pivotal era of modern American history.

The rise of the civil-rights movement becomes a portrait of an entire era.