Claudia Rankine

The critically acclaimed exploration of mounting racial aggressions in 21st-century daily life and in the media. In this moving, critical, and fiercely intelligent collection of prose poems, Claudia Rankine examines the experience of race and racism in Western society through sharp vignettes of everyday discrimination and prejudice, and longer meditations on the violence—whether linguistic or physical—which has impacted the lives...

‘Johnson is a leading voice of his generation.’ - New York Times The most comprehensive publication to date on widely celebrated artist Rashid Johnson Working with a variety of media that includes painting, sculpture, photography, video, and performance, Rashid Johnson has created a nuanced and iconographic body of work that connects literature, music, and art. Personal references and pervasive cultural...

The bestselling author of Citizen returns with a deeply moving tale of friendship and grief in the face of personal and collective loss. 'We are being asked to hold, visually and emotionally, realities we do not yet have a viable system of language or policy for.' Two friends meet in an art gallery after decades of silence. The idealism that...