The Sobbing School presents songs for the living and the dead that destabilize and de-familiarize representations of black history and contemporary black experience. What animates these poems is a desire to assert life, and interiority, where there is said to be none. Figures as widely divergent as Bobby Brown, Martin Heidegger, and the 19th-century performance artist Henry Box Brown, as well as Bennett's own family and childhood best friends, appear and are placed in conversation to show that there is always a world beyond what we are socialized to see value in, always alternative ways of thinking about relation that explode easy binaries.

An exploration of the interconnectedness of the Iñupiat of Northwest Alaska, the Western Arctic Caribou Herd, and the larger Arctic region, revealing the fragile and intertwined lives of people and animals surviving on an uncertain landscape. Kantner’s lifetime on the tundra underpins his compelling account of the politics of caribou, race relations, and cultural priorities vs. resource extraction. Kantner’s stunning full-color photographs enhance his depiction of community, habitat, and the timeless passage of caribou throughout.

An exploration of the interconnectedness of the Iñupiat of Northwest Alaska, the Western Arctic Caribou Herd, and the larger Arctic region, revealing the fragile and intertwined lives of people and animals surviving on an uncertain landscape. Kantner’s lifetime on the tundra underpins his compelling account of the politics of caribou, race relations, urban vs. rural demands, subsistence vs. sport hunting, and cultural priorities vs. resource extraction. Throughout the book, Kantner’s stunning full-color photographs enhance his depiction of community, habitat, and the timeless passage of caribou.

Are you feeling dismay, despair, disillusion? Need a break from the ho-hum, the hopeless, and the hurtful? Feel certain there’s a version of our world that doesn’t break down into tiny categories of alliance, but brings everybody together into one clattering chorus of glorious pandemonium? Amy Leach invites you into a book of praise songs, poetry, critique, soul-lifting philosophy, and whimsical but scientific trips into nature. It is equal parts joy and call to reason—where reason means taking care of the earth and everything in it.

Such Color collects the best poems from Smith’s award-winning books and culminates in thirty pages of brilliant, excoriating new poems. These new works confront America’s historical and contemporary racism and injustices, while rising toward the registers of the ecstatic, the rapturous, and the sacred—urging us toward love as a resistance to everything that impedes it. This magnificent retrospective affirms Smith’s place as one of the twenty-first century’s most treasured poets.

A transgressive, foulmouthed, and brutally funny spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting the urge to self-sabotage. As they tiptoe through minefields of romantic, substance-fueled misadventure—from dirty warehouses and gentrified bars in Oakland to desolate farm towns in Alabama—Purnell's characters strive for belonging in a world that dismisses them for being Black, broke, and queer. In spite of it—or perhaps because of it—they shine.

There is a silent epidemic in America: loneliness. Shameful to talk about and often misunderstood, loneliness is everywhere, from the most major of metropolises to the smallest of towns. In this wide-ranging exploration of our inner lives and public selves, Radtke digs into the ways we attempt to feel closer to one another, and the distance that remains. 

Blending memoir, history, sociology, and politics, Better to Have Gone probes an unsolved family mystery and portrays in vivid detail the daily life and tumultuous history of Auroville, a utopian community striving to create a better world.

Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson was all too aware that her mother, a practicing physician, had a vision for their future together: Libertie would go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie feels stifled by her mother’s choices and is hungry for something else. As she tries to parse what freedom means for a Black woman, Libertie struggles with where she might find it.

New York Times reporter Thompson-Hernández tells the compelling story of The Compton Cowboys, a group of African-American men and women who defy stereotypes and continue the proud, centuries-old tradition of black cowboys in the heart of one of America’s most notorious cities.