Discretion
Elizabeth Nunez’s reissued fourth novel is a haunting, mesmerizing exploration into the often destructive price of passion.
A River Called Time
Face: One Square Foot of Skin
Creatures of Passage
(Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay
Humble and Kind
Featured: Black Interest
The Hungered One
Akashic launches an African American–focused reprint series with this classic story collection.
Nowhere Is a Place
The long-awaited reissue of McFadden’s classic novel about a young woman on a journey of self-discovery.
Upcoming Events
VIRTUAL EVENT: Johanny Vázquez Paz, Rigoberto González – American Writers Museum (Chicago, IL)
4/15/21, 7:30pm
PLEASE NOTE: All of our virtual events are listed in Eastern Time (ET). Acclaimed writers Rigoberto González and Johanny Vázquez Paz read their work and discuss poetry and belonging in this installment of the Jean M. and John W. Rowe Program Series. González, the award-winning fiction, nonfiction, poetry and bilingual children’s book author, called Vázquez Paz’s collection I Offer My […]
VIRTUAL EVENT: Courttia Newland, Victor LaValle, Naomi Jackson – City Lights
4/17/21, 3:00pm
Courttia Newland, author of A River Called Time, in conversation with Victor LaValle; moderated by Naomi Jackson. Please visit City Lights to learn more. PLEASE NOTE: All of our virtual events are listed in Eastern Time (ET).
News & Features
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Another great week for FACE!
Justine Bateman’s Face: One Square Foot of Skin has had another great week!
- CREATURES OF PASSAGE Receives High Praise in New York Times, Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer and more!
- “Dominant Hand” by Susan Hammerman
- “Jackson’s Bad Choice” by Kristen Petry
- “Does the President Poop?” by Kristin Markovich and Laura Moore
Akashic Insider
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Quarantine Q&A: Courttia Newland
Courttia Newland talks to Johnny about African cosmology and the out-of-body experience that inspired his new novel; writing for Steve McQueen’s Small Axe films; and more!
- Quarantine Q&A: Morowa Yejidé
- Quarantine Q&A: Craig Finn
- Quarantine Q&A: Thurston Moore, Part II
- Quarantine Q&A: Thurston Moore, Part I