4 stories of resilience, mutual aid, and radical rebellion that will transform how we understand the Great Depression

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of The Tipping Point in a startling and revealing light.

A Washington Post most anticipated fall book
One of Literary Hub's most anticipated books of 2024
A New York Times Notable book of 2024.
One of Timemagazine's 100 Must Read Books of 2024

A lyrical meditation on how Black Americans have envisioned utopia - and sought to transform their lives.

“Jeanne’s book not only inspired the documentary but has been a catalyst in changing our national understanding of Rosa Parks. Highly recommend!” —Soledad O’Brien, executive producer of the Peabody Award–winning documentary The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

The NAACP Image Award–winning book that has helped redefine the public understanding of the civil rights icon—revealing her to be a radical and committed activist

An acclaimed historian narrates the stories of newly emancipated children who were re-enslaved by white masters through apprenticeships and their parents fights to free them

The true—and unsolved—story of unabashedly greedy men, their exploitation of Muscogee land, and the hunt for the ghost of a boy who may never have existed

A 2024 Publisher's Weekly best Nonfiction book of the year.

A surprising and beautiful meditation on the color blue—and its fascinating role in Black history and culture—from National Book Award winner Imani Perry

A groundbreaking investigation of the Caribbean as both an idyll in the American imagination and a dark laboratory of Western experimentation, revealing secrets to racial and environmental progress that impact how we live today.

An enlightening and entertaining interrogation of the myth of American self-reliance and the idea of hard work as destiny

A political and intellectual history of American counterculture and the historical figures who redefined mainstream understandings of freedom, culture, art, and politics—from The Beat Generation to Basquiat

From the celebrated author of Freedom Dreams, a thought-provoking look at how the multicolored urban working class are the solution—not the problem—to the ills of American cities

A limited Beacon Classics edition, with a gorgeous spot gloss cover and retro, classic palette

A dynamic and strikingly relevant look at a feminist canon as expansive rather than definitive
A Penguin Classic