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Hanif Abdurraqib
This essay collection traces Black performance through cultural history and personal memory, showing how acts of expression shape American life. Each scene opens into a larger meditation on art, power, and inheritance.
Andrea Wang, Jason Chin
A Chinese American girl begins with the embarrassment of gathering watercress and moves toward a deeper understanding of her family’s past. The illustrations carry the moment when shame turns into connection.
Angeline Boulley
A coming-of-age mystery about a young Ojibwe woman who confronts her cultural roots while uncovering a drug- and crime-linked conspiracy. Identity, tradition, and justice collide throughout the story.
Imbolo Mbue
A novel about a fictional African village confronting an outside extraction company, tracing environmental destruction, power, and generational conflict.
Cathy Park Hong
A seven-essay collection that examines racialized experiences and emotional complexity of being Asian American, blending memoir and cultural criticism.
Kali Wallace
A claustrophobic science-fiction mystery about a murder on a space station and the hidden history behind an earlier attack.
Fatima Shaik, The Historic New Orleans Collection
"Economy Hall: The Hidden History of a Free Black Brotherhood tells the story of the Sociâetâe d'Economie et d'Assistance Mutuelle, a New Orleans mutual aid society founded by free men of color in 1836. The group was one of the most important multiethnic, intellectual communities in the US South: educators, world-traveling merchants, soldiers, tradesmen, and poets who rejected racism and colorism to fight for suffrage and education rights for all.
Erica Ruth Neubauer
Set in Egypt after World War I, Jane Wunderly travels with her wealthy aunt and becomes entangled in a murder at the Mena House hotel. As suspicion turns toward her, she investigates the other guests, determined to uncover the truth and clear her name.
Philippa Dowding
A middle-grade novel about a girl named Firefly who is forced to rebuild her life at her aunt’s costume shop after a traumatic night separates her from her mother.
Emanuele Trevi
A literary portrait of the late writers Rocco Carbone and Pia Pera, reflecting on how to write about lives with the right distance.
Maria Stepanova, Sasha Dugdale
An essayistic book that reconstructs Russian family history from photographs, letters, and diaries, turning memory itself into the subject of inquiry.