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Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice

Cristina Rivera Garza

In 2019, Cristina Rivera Garza traveled from her home in Texas to Mexico City, in search of an old unresolved…

To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul

Tracy K. Smith

ALOUD welcomes two-time Poet Laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize–winner Tracy K. Smith with her remarkable book To Free…

An Amerikan Family: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

Santi Elijah Holley

Award-winning journalist Santi Elijah Holley brings us a long overdue look at the Shakur family who, for over fifty years, have…

Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair

Rosa Lowinger

Renowned art conservator Rosa Lowinger reveals in her beautiful memoir Dwell Time, a journey of her difficult childhood in Miami growing…

First Gen: A Memoir

Alejandra Campoverdi

From former White House aide to President Obama and Harvard graduate, Alejandra Campoverdi comes a riveting unflinching memoir on navigating…

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

“A dazzling, hallucinatory tour de force that takes the reader through shadow selves and global fascism, leaving them gasping by…

The Rabbit Hutch

Tess Gunty

“Tess Gunty’s debut novel… is lush and melancholy, jumping between various points of view. It’s a meandering story that defies…

Our Migrant Souls:
A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”

Héctor Tobar

“‘Stories about empire,’ Tobar writes, ‘move us because they’re echoes of the memories that reside deep in our collective consciousness.’ Latinos, after…

Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist

Frans de Waal

“This surprising look at the nature of primates has a lot to say about what it means to be human.”― Publishers…

Writer/Scholar/Target:
Online Harassment and the Threat to Free Expression

Reza Aslan and Franklin Leonard

Around the world, writers and journalists have been increasingly targeted for their work by waves of online harassment. From the…