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The Book of Daniel by E. L. Doctorow
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $21.97Based on the trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, convicted of delivering information about the atomic bomb to the Soviet Union E.L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel includes a new... -
Al-Qur'an: A Contemporary Translation by Ahmed Ali 9780691074993
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.82This bilingual edition of the Qur'an, the Holy Book of Islam, was first published in the United States in 1988. Ahmed Ali, the distinguished Pakistani novelist, poet, critic, and diplomat, presents... -
Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work by Edwidge Danticat 9780691140186
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.11"Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. This is what I've always thought it meant to be a writer. Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday,... -
Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition by James T. Kloppenberg 9780691154336
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.49Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his... -
Gordon Parks Centennial: His Legacy at Wichita State University by Patricia McDonnell
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $38.60This book celebrates photographer, filmmaker, composer, and author Gordon Parks, drawing on photographs and archival material held at Wichita State University. Parks's legacy involves a delicate... -
Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) by Akira Mizuta Lippit
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.20This book explores the "avisual" and its effect on the visual world. Dreams, x-rays, atomic radiation, and "invisible men" are phenomena that are visual in nature but unseen. "Atomic Light (Shadow... -
Flying Home And Other Stories by John Callahan
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.92Raw, lyrical and blazing with intensity, these short stories are a potent distillation of the genius of Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man.'He saw the dark bird glide into the sun and glow like a... -
Mine Eyes Have Seen: Bearing Witness to the Struggle for Civil Rights by Bob Adelman 9780500543481
RRP: $16.64Booksplease Price: $14.42This searing collection of photographs by LIFE photographer Bob Adelman takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride through Americas Civil Rights Movement. These unforgettable photographs of Americas... -
Fat Time and Other Stories Jeffery Renard Allen 9781644452394
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $23.16In Fat Time and Other Stories, Jimi Hendrix, Francis Bacon, the boxer Jack Johnson, Miles Davis, and a space-age Muhammad Ali find themselves in the otherworldly hands of Jeffery Renard Allen,... -
The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Norton Critical Edition by H. G. Wells 9780393920154
RRP: $28.54Booksplease Price: $25.85This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1896 William Heinemann edition of Wells's novel-a cauldron of scientific ambition, interspecies conflict, and neocolonial violence-with a glossary of... -
The Novel Experience: Reading Fiction with Nagarjuna, Nietzsche, and William James Helmut Müller-Sievers 9781501785634
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $32.27The Novel Experience introduces new approaches to the study of narrative fiction, for scholars, critics, teachers, and readers. At the heart of this concise book is a conception of experience that is... -
Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky 9780393976120
Booksplease Price: $38.58"Backgrounds and Sources" includes relevant writings by Dostoevsky, among them "Winter Notes on Summer Impressions," the author's account of a formative trip to the West. New to the Second Edition... -
My Amputations: A Novel by Clarence Major 9781573661430
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.99Originally published in 1986, this is a work of American fiction.About the AuthorClarence Major is a prize-winning poet, novelist, painter, and a Bronze Medal finalist for the National Book Award... -
Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays Jesse McCarthy (Harvard University) 9781324091479
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $31.20Ranging from Ta-Nehisi Coates's case for reparations to D'Angelo's simmering blend of R&B and racial justice, Jesse McCarthy's dazzling essays capture debates at the intersection of art, literature... -
Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers Kristopher Jansma 9781683693734
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $33.68Find creative inspiration in this fascinating rummage through the wastebaskets, secret diaries, and abandoned files of 20 literary superstars. If you like to write whether it s a pastime, a... -
Telling the Truth: The Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction by Barbara C. Foley 9781501722882
RRP: $47.58Booksplease Price: $39.20Barbara Foley here focuses on the relatively neglected genre of documentary fiction: novels that are continually near the borderline between factual and fictive discourse. She links the development... -
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Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity by Alexander G. Weheliye 9780822335771 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $62.21Phonographies explores the numerous links and relays between twentieth-century black cultural production and sound technologies from the phonograph to the Walkman. Highlighting how black authors,... -
On Being and Becoming: An Existentialist Approach to Life by Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $28.30While existentialism has long been associated with Parisian Left Bank philosophers sipping cocktails in smoke-filled cafes, or with a brooding, angst-filled outlook on life, Gosetti-Ferencei shows... -
Letters of Note: New York by Shaun Usher
RRP: $19.02Booksplease Price: $14.33In Letters of Note: New York, Shaun Usher curates a collection of extraordinary written exchanges about the Big Apple, from the marvelling of wide-eyed newcomers and the devoted outpourings of native... -
Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic by Larry Neal 9781644231203
RRP: $26.06Booksplease Price: $19.04A comprehensive and inspiring collection of essays by Larry Neal, a founder of the seminal Black Arts Movement. "The Black Arts Movement is radically opposed to any concept of the artist that... -
Philadelphia Fire by John Edgar Wideman
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $8.07In 1985 police bombed a West Philadelphia row house. Eleven people died and a fire started that destroyed sixty other houses. John Edgar Wideman brings these events and their repercussions to... -
The Healing Gayl Jones 9780349012186
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $18.40THE FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD'A literary giant, and one of my absolute favourite writers' TAYARI JONES'The novel's richness lies in its entertaining meandering, and the vitality of its... -
Brown Glass Windows by devorah major 9781880684870
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $31.94Brown Glass Windows is the story of the Evermans, an African-American family in the Filmore District of San Francisco and the tragic history of their son, Ranger, who returns scarred from his... -
The Northern Stories of Charles W. Chesnutt by Charles W. Chesnutt 9780821415436
RRP: $45.20Booksplease Price: $39.70The first African American fiction writer to earn a national reputation, Charles W. Chesnutt remains best known for his depictions of Southern life before and after the Civil War. But he also... -
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $14.66Verticality, architectural and social, is at the heart of Colson Whitehead's first novel that takes place in an unnamed high-rise city that combines twenty-first-century engineering feats with... -
Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race by Charles W. Mills
RRP: $66.62Booksplease Price: $55.24Charles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience. Ralph Ellison's metaphor of black invisibility has special relevance to... -
The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 3 by Philip Gourevitch
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.01Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely-crafted literature... -
Aberrations In Black: Toward A Queer Of Color Critique by Roderick A. Ferguson 9780816641291
RRP: $40.44Booksplease Price: $35.49A hard-hitting look at the regulation of sexual difference and its role in circumscribing African American culture The sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of... -
Cane: A Norton Critical Edition Jean Toomer 9781324088059
RRP: $33.30Booksplease Price: $31.20This Norton Critical Edition includes: The text of Toomer's genre-bending masterpiece as edited by Darwin T. Turner for the First Norton Critical Edition (1988).A revised and expanded introduction,... -
Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
RRP: $23.78Booksplease Price: $19.59This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner's elaborate descriptive syntax.Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard roommate, are obsessed with the tragic rise and fall of... -
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Within the Circle: An Anthology of African American Literary Criticism from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present by Angelyn Mitchell 9780822315360 [USED COPY]
RRP: $304.64Booksplease Price: $32.20Within the Circle is the first anthology to present the entire spectrum of twentieth-century African American literary and cultural criticism. It begins with the Harlem Renaissance, continues through... -
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
RRP: $30.92Booksplease Price: $18.42NOW AN APPLE TV+ SERIES STARRING LAKEITH STANDFIELDONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST FANTASY BOOKS OF ALL TIME Winner of an American Book Award, a Locus Award for Best Horror Novel, a British Fantasy Award for... -
The American Sentence: From Pulpit to Pulp Fiction Ira B. Nadel 9781350473089
RRP: $42.82Booksplease Price: $37.70A compelling quest to locate a history and poetics of the American sentence, this book applies four stages of communication to the story of American writing - the sermon, the telegraph, the newspaper... -
No Name in the Street James Baldwin 9780241711187
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $18.92'Candid, insightful, moving . . . a memoir, a chronicle of and commentary on America's abortive civil-rights movement' -The New York TimesIn this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the... -
Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual by Robert F. Reid-Pharr 9780814775837 [USED COPY]
RRP: $204.68Booksplease Price: $20.472007 Lambda Literary Award Finalist, LGBT Studies Richard Wright. Ralph Ellison. James Baldwin. Literary and cultural critic Robert Reid-Pharr asserts that these and other post-World War II... -
Hip Figures: A Literary History of the Democratic Party by Michael Szalay
RRP: $64.24Booksplease Price: $29.25Hip Figures dramatically alters our understanding of the postwar American novel by showing how it mobilized fantasies of black style on behalf of the Democratic Party. Fascinated by jazz, rhythm and... -
Being Somebody and Black Besides: An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life by George B Nesbitt 9780226783123
RRP: $57.12Booksplease Price: $35.82The late Chicagoan George Nesbitt could perhaps best be described as an ordinary man with an extraordinary gift for storytelling. In his newly uncovered memoir-written fifty years ago, yet never... -
The Selfless Act of Breathing by JJ Bola
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $15.40A heartbreaking, lyrical story for all of those who have fantasised about escaping their daily lives and starting over.Michael Kabongo is a British-Congolese teacher living in London on the cusp of... -
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The Selfless Act of Breathing by JJ Bola 9780349702063 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.16Booksplease Price: $6.40A heartbreaking, lyrical story for all of those who have fantasised about escaping their daily lives and starting over.Michael Kabongo is a British-Congolese teacher living in London on the cusp of... -
The Selfless Act of Breathing by JJ Bola 9780349702070
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.04A heartbreaking, lyrical story for all of those who have fantasised about escaping their daily lives and starting over.Michael Kabongo is a British-Congolese teacher living in London on the cusp of...