Once considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an... Læs mere
From the dawn of the modern civil rights movement, James Meredith has offered a unique perspective on democracy, racial equality, and the meaning of America. Man on a Mission presents his captivating saga for a new generation in the era of Black Lives Matter.
Explores the vibrant country music scene that emerged in Springfield, Missouri, in the 1930s and thrived for half a century. Central to this history is the Ozark Jubilee (1955-60), the first regularly broadcast live country music show on network television.
Whether ruminating on intimacy, lineage, identity, faith, or addiction, Clark’s poems embody a restless, rigorous curiosity. Largely set in the poet’s hometown of Louisville,... Læs mere
‘When he died, my brother became the architect of the rest of my life,’ writes Alison Thumel in Architect, which interweaves poems, lyric essays, and visual art to great emotional effect.
Exploring what it meant to accuse someone of eating people as well as how cannibalism rumours facilitated slavery and the rise of... Læs mere
This is Jimmy Carter’s account of the satisfaction, frustration, and solitude that attend the man in the Oval Offce. Captivatingly written, this rich historical... Læs mere
When John McDonnell began his coaching career at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, he could hardly have imagined that he would become... Læs mere
The poems in A Theory of Birds draw on inherited memory, historical record, critical theory, alternative geographies, and sharp observation. In them, birds-particularly extinct species-become metaphor for the violences perpetrated on othered bodies under the colonial gaze.
Chronicles how violence brought about the founding of the Black Panther Party in 1966 by Huey P Newton and Bobby Seale,... Læs mere