Shattered
Fragments of a Black Life
A heartrending and engrossing memoir that challenges narratives of racial progress and postracial America.
“Every so often, a book comes along that changes the way we see, speak, and think about the world. Shattered is one of those books.” —Frank B. Wilderson III, author of Afropessimism and Incognegro
Clear Creek
Toward a Natural Philosophy
Acclaimed author Erik Reece spends a year beside a rural Kentucky stream, in close observation of the natural world’s cycles, revelations, and redemptions.
Essential Voices
A COVID-19 Anthology
A collection of creative writing and art about COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic by people from vulnerable populations.
The Wounds That Bind Us
The improbable and powerful true story of a single mother with prosthetics for both legs who travels the globe with her young daughter in a Land Rover.
Abigail Field Mott's The Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano
A Scholarly Edition
An adaptation of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative published for Black children in 1829, now given new life in a major scholarly edition.
Community across Time
Robert Morgan’s Words for Home
One of the first book-length considerations of the Appalachian writer Robert Morgan.
Improving Learning and Mental Health in the College Classroom
How teachers can help combat higher education’s mental health crisis.
American Energy Cinema
Historians investigate the relationships between film, culture, and energy.
In Other Lifetimes All I've Lost Comes Back to Me
Stories
For readers of Elena Ferrante, Nicole Krauss, and Carmen Maria Machado, In Other Lifetimes All I’ve Lost Comes Back to Me is a braided story collection that invokes the real, surreal, and mythic to explore the longings and loneliness of contemporary love.
Ecologies of a Storied Planet in the Anthropocene
A more-than-human approach to planetary survival, from a leading environmental humanist.
The In-Betweens
A Lyrical Memoir
The biracial coming-of-age journey of a boy from Black and Jewish families—a “brilliant, devastating book.”
The Fifth Border State
Slavery, Emancipation, and the Formation of West Virginia, 1829–1872
One of the first new interpretations of West Virginia’s origins in over a century—and one that corrects previous histories’ tendency to minimize support for slavery in the state’s founding.
Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility
The Agrochemical-GMO Industry in Hawai‘i
How Hawaiʻi became the epicenter of the biotech seed industry, and how a resistance movement arose to confront the industry’s power.
Picture a Professor
Interrupting Biases about Faculty and Increasing Student Learning
A collection of evidence-based insights and intersectional teaching strategies to inspire transformative student learning and interrupt stereotypes about what a professor looks like.
Bratwurst Haven
Stories
Linked stories trace the vocational and emotional bargains made by workers at a Colorado sausage factory.