Biography & Memoir
The Fair Fields: My Way to Words
Hardback
A memoir-in-vignettes recalling a poet’s early years and memories from a literary household
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide
Paperback
Howard French’s The Second Emancipation stands the second half of the last century on its geopolitical head.” — David Levering Lewis, winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
Paperback
Paul Gauguin’s legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is...
The Absent Woman: The Genius of Janet Malcolm
Hardback
An illuminating critical biography of one of our most influential nonfiction authors, New Yorker journalist Janet Malcolm.
Signals Across Vast Distances: Essays and Tales
Hardback
A call to courage and connection from prize-winning poet and champion for the arts and humanities