In celebration of the release of Black History Month, our Black History Digit includes excerpts from our two February Releases—Nowhere Is a Place by Bernice L. McFadden and The Gospel According to Cane by Courttia Newland—along with Chris Abani’s Becoming Abigail and Kola Boof’s The Sexy Part of the Bible.
After being shot ten times by her fiancé and left for dead, Katrina Brownlee miraculously survived and became a decorated NYPD detective, a mentor, and founder of a nonprofit support group for at-risk women.
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An impassioned plea for freedom and justice, set in a world uncomfortably like our own, by the Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri.
11/4/26, 5:30pm
Presenting Virgin Islands Noir, featuring Tiphanie Yanique, Traci O’Dea, Rea Vanterpool, Johanna Gibson, Johnny Temple, and Richard Georges.
11/6/26, 5:00pm
Kira Tucker presents Wildest: Poems.
Now available for preorder: the latest “naphic grovel” by rap legend Chuck D
The new paperback edition of David Duchovny’s debut poetry collection, About Time, is now available for preorder.
This year we’ve gotten hundreds (thousands?) of reports that scammers are impersonating (or inventing) Akashic Books staff . . .
Our exclusive preorder package for Natasha Howard’s new WNBA memoir is now available for preorder
Gina Gershon’s preorder package for her new memoir AlphaPussy is now available!
