Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body

Don't Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the BodyA powerful and provocative collection of essays that offers poignant reflections on living between societys most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spacesbetween black and white, rich and poor, thin and fat. Savala Nolan knows what it means to live in the in between. Descended from a Black and Mexican father and a white mother, Nolans mixed race identity is obvious, for better and worse. At her mothers encouragement, she began her first diet

lay in the creative function

In The Whiteness of Wealth

this volume is a close look at everyday practices of religious beliefs and arts practices in two weaving communities

Madison Paige Robinson

intimate correspondence with friends

and fairness

seeking to break out in the entertainment world

an utterly delightful novel about a woman who ditches her dating app for a writer’s retreat in Italy—only to find that real love comes with its own filters

The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer

LLC (August 21

dazzling image of a youthful Maya Angelou against a pink flowery background

An enthralling narrative that combines a rich historical account with gritty urban reporting