Now Available—LyricPop: A New Picture Book Series!

Akashic Books is pleased to announce LyricPop, A New Picture Book Series Presenting Your Favorite Song Lyrics, Launching today.

“Lastique and the Baby” by Kirk V. Bhajan

It was the start of the rainy season. Dark clouds billowed over the setting sun, leaving the air ripe with a feeling of dread.

“The Night Shape Shifter” by Kirk Budhooram

Is years I waiting for God to smile on me. And is years the devil pissing on me. Sometimes I think I is the orphan child of the both a them.

“The Catch” by Kavita Ganness

It was Mama who bought Lal his first mask. That was more than twenty Carnivals ago and now he had developed a great fondness for wearing them.

#10YearsOfGreenlight: Celebrating Creative Community in Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY

Date: October, 10 2019

#10YearsOfGreenlight: Celebrating Creative Community in Brooklyn, featuring guest hosts Angel Nafis and Johnny Temple. Readings & performances by Marlon James, Jeff Kass, April Jones, and other special guests. Reception to follow. RSVP on Facebook.

“Doh Let Jumbie Hold Yah” by Krystal M. Ramroop

Despite her initial first-generation confusion towards the phrase, it had been embedded in Sonia’s ‘reserved for home’ Guyanese Creole vocabulary.

A TALL HISTORY OF SUGAR Is One of Vanity Fair‘s Best of 2019!

Curdella Forbes’s A Tall History of Sugar, released in October 2019, was selected as an Editors’ Pick for Vanity Fair‘s Best Books of 2019 by Copy Production Director Anderson Tepper. His recommendation reads: “Curdella Forbes’s A Tall History of Sugar is the most recent in an impressive new wave of novels by Jamaican writers—from Marlon James‘s Booker […]

“The Wish” by Simone Clunie

The witch had seen this same look in a mother’s eye before when such a request was made.