Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncerain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions -- affection, despair, and hope.

A young couple in Harlem struggle with the woman's pregnancy while trying to prove that the man is innocent of a crime.

Turning her attention to the culture at large, an expert at making people squirm by asking tough questions combines pop-culture commentary and her own personal stories that grapple with her (mis)understanding of identity.

Dive into the joys of literature with an extraordinary companion for book lovers: a compulsively readable, deeply engaging guide to great short novels. Designed with our busy schedules in mind, Great Short Books offers fifty-eight excellent short novels as presented by a bestselling historian, author, and lifelong reader, all easily readable in a week or less--a "baker's dozen" approach to a fun, fascinating year of pleasure with books. From hard-boiled...

Karisma Price's stunning debut collection is an extended meditation on Blackness, on family, on loss. Anchored in New Orleans and New York City, these poems braid personal and public histories into a cultural reckoning of past and present. James Booker speaks to Ringo Starr, a phone "Autocorrects 'Nigga' to Night'," If Beale Street Could Talk is recast with characters from The Odyssey. In these pages there is grief, there is absence, there is violence...