Cultural Literature
Klara and the Sun
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick • ON PRESIDENT OBAMA’S SUMMER 2021 READING LIST • A Best Book of the Year by Harper's Bazaar, Vulture, and moreA magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro—author...
$28.00
The Searcher
Publisher: Viking Best Book of 2020New York Times |NPR | New York Post"This hushed suspense tale about thwarted dreams of escape may be her best one yet . . . Its own kind of masterpiece." --Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post"A new...
$27.00
Aya: Love in Yop City
Supplier: Drawn & Quarterly THE DRAMATIC CONCLUSION TO THE AYA SERIESAya: Love in Yop City comprises the final three chapters of the Aya story, episodes never before seen in English. Aya is a lighthearted story about life in the Ivory Coast during the 1970s, a...
$29.95
Bttm Fdrs
Supplier: Fantagraphics Books An Afrofuturist horror-comedy about gentrification, hip hop, and cultural appropriation. Once a thriving working class neighborhood on Chicago’s south side, the “Bottomyards” is now the definition of urban blight. When an aspiring fashion designer named Darla and...
$24.99
Fictional Father
Supplier: Drawn & Quarterly A dysfunctional family lives in the shadow of a world famous comic strip and its tyrannical creatorCaleb is a middle-aged painter with a non-starter career. He also happens to be the only child of one of...
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Godhead
Supplier: Fantagraphics Books In this gritty thriller, chaos ensues after a powerful corporation creates a device to communicate with God. Godhead ricochets from the streets of a working-class African American community to the glimmering halls of corporate America to a mobile...
$24.99
Hip Hop Family Tree, Book 4: 1984-1985
Supplier: Fantagraphics Books In the latest volume of the history of hip-hop told in graphic novel form, we are introduced to characters such as Dr. Dre, Will Smith, Salt-N-Peppa (some of whom were featured in the hit summer movie, Straight Out...
$27.99
Hot Comb
Supplier: Drawn & Quarterly Appeared on best of the year lists from The Washington Post, NPR, The Guardian, and more! Nominated for an NAACP Image Award and Winner of the Believer Book Award for Fiction!Hot Comb offers a poignant glimpse into black women’s lives and coming-of-age...
$21.95
Laguardia
Supplier: Berger Books
Eisner and Hugo Award Winner!Written by Nnedi Okorafor, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author and the writer of Marvel's Shuri, this deluxe trade paperback collects issues #1-#4 of the mini-series and includes artist sketches and afterword from the author.
$19.99
Morrison Hotel: Graphic Novel
Supplier: Z2 Comics The Morrison Hotel anthology written by Leah Moore, in collaboration with the surviving members of the legendary rock band and drawn by artists from around the comic book world, will weave the band’s influence into some of the lore...
$19.99
Prince of Cats
Supplier: Image Comics PRINCE OF CATS is the B side to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, played at an eighties block party in a NY where underground sword dueling blossomed alongside hip-hop, punk, disco, and no wave. It's a deconstruction of...
$17.99
Resistance
Supplier: Atlantic Monthly Press The first graphic novel from Britain’s “Queen of Crime” (Scotsman) and gorgeously illustrated by up-and-comer Kathryn Briggs, Resistance is a chilling but incredibly moving and inspiring story of individuals pressed to rise above their station, first to nail...
$17.00
The Red Mother with Child
Supplier: Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing A red Mother with Child, a 14th century African sculpture, is saved from the destructive madness of Islamists by Alou, a young honey hunter. In the company of other migrants, sisters, and brothers of misfortune,...
$27.99
The Sacrifice of Darkness
Supplier: Archaia Roxane Gay, Tracy Lynne Oliver, and Rebecca Kirby adapt Gay’s New York Times bestelling short story “We Are the Sacrifice of Darkness” as a full length graphic novel, expanding and further developing the unforgettable world where the sun...
$24.99
Third World War Book Two: Back to Babylon
Supplier: Rebellion “In the harsh light of the third decade of this century it seems everything that made the comics work, including the bloody single-mindedness, shines ever brighter.” – Tom Shapira, The Comics Journal After her eye-opening experiences of corporate...
$25.00
Third World War, 1: Book One
Supplier: Rebellion Eve is unemployed after leaving university and is immediately conscripted as a soldier working for a corporation and discovers just how South American countries are being exploited to create food needed to feed the increasing population for their...
$24.99
Year Negative One
Supplier: Z2 Comics The origin of Major Lazer! In an alternate timeline 1984, Jamaica’s crown jewel is Nu Kingston—a retro futuristic metropolis where gang lords control hordes of zombie-like addicts with a drug called Spice. Worst among them is BadMan...
$19.99
African American Poetry: 250 Years of Struggle & Song (Loa #333): A Library of America Anthology
Publisher: Library of America A literary landmark: the biggest, most ambitious anthology of Black poetry ever published, gathering 250 poets from the colonial period to the presentAcross a turbulent history, from such vital centers as Harlem, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los...
$45.00
Somebody Else Sold the World
Publisher: Penguin Books A resonant new collection on love and persistence from the author of The Big Smoke, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer PrizeThe poems in Adrian Matejka's newest and fifth collection, Somebody Else Sold the World,...
$20.00
A River Called Time
A monumental speculative fiction story of love, loyalty, politics, and conscience, set in parallel Londons. "Newland...imagines a world where colonialism never happened at all...It's speculative fiction that genuinely made me speculate."--Wired "A dystopian multiverse imagined at thrilling scale...Extraordinary...The excitement lies...
$28.95