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Poet Camonghne Felix Longlisted for National Book Award

Camonghne Felix’s debut book of poems, Build Yourself a Boat, has been longlisted for the 2019 National Book Award for Poetry. The book is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains.

Featured Books

Whose Story Is This?

by Rebecca Solnit

New feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the international best-selling author of Men Explain Things to Me.
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable (Adapted for Young Adults)

by Michael Bennett and Dave Zirin

Super Bowl Champion and three-time Pro Bowler Michael Bennett is an outspoken proponent for social justice and a man without a censor.
Crossfire

by Staceyann Chin

Powerhouse, world-renowned LGBTQ poet and spoken-word artist Staceyann Chin curates the first full-length collection of her poems.
Everything Must Go

by Kevin Coval

Award-winning poet Kevin Coval and graphic artist Langston Allston bear witness to the effects of gentrification in a Chicago neighborhood.
Can I Kick It?

by Idris Goodwin

Award-winning poet and playwright Idris Goodwin interrogates and remixes our cultural past in order to make sense of our present and potential futures.

Aftershocks of Disaster

Edited by Yarimar Bonilla and Marisol LeBrón

An in-depth look at Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and the preexisting crisis that conditioned this historic disaster.
1919

by Eve L. Ewing
Reflections on race, class, violence, segregation, and the hidden histories that shape our divided urban landscapes.
Capitalism and Disability

by Marta Russell

This book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism.
Marx at the Arcade

by Jamie Woodcock

This pathbreaking book offers a radical analysis of how people play, produce, and profit from video games, and the major role the industry plays in contemporary capitalism.
Cinderella Liberator

by Rebecca Solnit

Rebecca Solnit reimagines a classic fairytale with a fresh, feminist Cinderella and new plot twists that will inspire young readers to change the world.

Devin Allen

“Devin Allen could be the Gordon Parks of his generation.”
—NBC BLK
Michael Bennett

“There is a tradition of athletes who understand that sports is a way to reach people and change the world. Michael Bennett's name deserves mention alongside the best of us.”
—Dr. John Carlos
Angela Y. Davis

"Here is someone worthy of the Ancestors who delivered her. Angela Davis has stood her ground on every issue important to the health of our people and the planet."
—Alice Walker
Eve L. Ewing

"Ignore Eve Ewing at your own intellectual, political, and cultural peril."

–Chicago Magazine
Naomi Klein

"Naomi Klein has become the most visible and influential figure on the left–what Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky were thirty years ago."
—The New Yorker

Aja Monet

“Aja Monet’s poetry offers us textures of feeling and radical shifts of meaning that expand our capacity to envision and fight for new worlds.”
—Angela Y. Davis
Arundhati Roy

“Arundhati Roy is one of the few great revolutionary intellectuals in our time."
—Cornel West
Rebecca Solnit

"No writer has weighed the complexities of sustaining hope in our times of readily available despair more thoughtfully and beautifully, nor with greater nuance."
—Maria Popova
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

"Taylor has absconded from the ivory tower to break down the current Movement for Black Lives, arguing that it holds the potential to reignite a broader push for black liberation."
—The Root
Howard Zinn

“Few people changed more lives than Howard Zinn."
—Naomi Klein