Non-Fiction

The Japanese word 'koan' is a seemingly unanswerable riddle used by practitioners of Zen Buddhism to trigger spiritual enlightenment and understanding.

The breathtaking story of one family's journey to restore, renovate, and preserve a historic mansion. It's a million-dollar project with gorgeous potential--and many challenges. THE CHANCELLOR'S MANSION was built by William Townsend McCoun, a public...

When I think of the kind of writing that really moves me, I think of the elements present in Bennett's poetry: honesty about Black women's interior lives, clarity (because we don't have time to talk around a thing), and a mean metaphor. Amanda Bennett...

In The Night Before the End of the World, award-winning author Ran Walker crafts 200 microfiction and prose poem pieces that pulse with afrosurrealism, horror, humor, love, and loss. Each piece, ranging from 9-235 words, explores the wild and often...

Jerry T. Johnson's Bad Fruit boldly asks society: have we lost our minds or taken leave of our senses? We eat lies and say the lies taste good. We inhale pollutants and say the air is fresh. We watch glaciers melt and say there is no global warming. We...

The long and pernicious relationship between fast food restaurants and the African American community Today, fast food is disproportionately located in Black neighborhoods and marketed to Black Americans through targeted advertising. But throughout much...

An unforgettable poetry collection blending the author's personal experiences with shared empathetic moments from others, "Poetic Rants of Pain and Appreciation" dives into the vulnerability of life and the struggle of growing up multiracial in a big...

Foundations of Black Epistemology is Adebayo Oluwayomi's bold endeavor to delineate Black epistemology as a new sub-disciplinary focus in contemporary Africana or Black philosophy. He engages in a rigorous historical study of Black intellectual history...

A corrective history of the essential role that Black women played in the early Black press.In Great Thinkers and Doers, Teresa Zackodnik looks at the vital--and largely overlooked--role of Black women readers, writers, and editors in the development of...

Carried within Martheaus Perkins' The Grace of Black Mothers are the many howls of lost children and their martyrized mothers. This debut collection brings a lyrical reckoning on behalf of dismembered dreams by boldly finding grace through our Black...

From a prizewinning poet whose work "points to an unfathomably bright future for the canon" (Danez Smith), a stunningly lush collection about desire, resilience, and our fraught and ecstatic relationship with the natural world A collection as remarkable...

I want to know what you know about my peopleI said to the caretaker's granddaughter. I want you to tell me something about them. The Other Revival is a story of homecoming. This collection of poems revolves around a house built in Harpersville, Alabama...