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From one of the most brilliant writers and thinkers of the twentieth century comes a collection of "passionate, probing, controversial" essays (The...

Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin“I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be def...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In his final years, one of America’s greatest writers envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers,...

From one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century—an extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies th...

One of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's spiritual, sexual, and m...

Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry; the...

A major work of American literature from a major American writer that powerfully portrays the anguish of being Black in a society that at times s...

#26 on The Guardian's list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in AmericaIn an age of Black Li...

A stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime--"a moving, painful story, so...

From one of the most important writers of the twentieth century comes a stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart wh...

From one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century comes a groundbreaking novel set among the bohemian bars and ...

An award-winning play from one of America's most brilliant writers about a murder in a small Southern town, loosely based on the 1955 killing of Em...