NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 1, 2011
"A lively, opinionated survey, telling a story that the textbooks too often overlook."
Comprehensive, decidedly non-neutral, history of the African-American presence in American political life through perhaps its most representative place.
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 7, 2010
"An impressive take on the Great Migration, and a truly auspicious debut."
In her ambitious debut, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Wilkerson (Journalism, Narrative Nonfiction/Boston Univ.) examines the Great Migration of African-Americans from World War I to the 1970s.
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 13, 2009
"A cracking good read, something that all too few essay anthologies manage to be."
Inaugural edition of a new series proves that there's always room for another delivery method for quality short nonfiction.
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FICTION
Released: Nov. 14, 2008
"Better seen as a lengthy prose poem than a novel, this allusive, elusive little gem adds its own shadowy luster to the Nobel laureate's shimmering body of work."
Abandonment, betrayal and loss are the somber themes of this latest exploration of America's morally compromised history from Morrison (
Love, 2003, etc.).
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NONFICTION
Released: Jan. 13, 2004
"Arguments that are crisply delivered and guaranteed to irritate vast constituencies."
A full-bore assault on white racism on one hand and black orthodoxies on the other, one that finds the author well-prepared for the inevitable backlash.
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NONFICTION
Released: Feb. 1, 2000
"Beyond all the angry rap videos, Dent's eloquent reportage shows us that Dr. Huxtable is no fantasy, and the Fresh Prince may have family in Bel Air."
FICTION
Released: Dec. 1, 1996
"Glorious, pre—Invisible Man riffs—and another fine addition to the Ellison oeuvre."
This marvelous collection of 13 stories, six of which were never published during Ellison's lifetime, partly explains the phenomenon of Invisible Man, itself no ordinary first book.
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 1993
"A rude, rousing defense and celebration of African-American culture."
A barrage of angry, cranky, funny, exciting pieces by black journalist Wiley (
Why Black People Tend to Shout, 1991;
Serenity, 1989).
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 1992
"A novel that hits so many exposed nerves is sure to be a conversation-piece: it has heart and pizzazz and even, yes, the sweet smell of the breakthrough book."
