Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us by Legacy Russell (Verso)
The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War by Jesse McCarthy (University of Chicago)
Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today by Claire Bishop (Verso)
Intervals by Marianne Brooker (Fitzcarraldo)
Magical/Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders by Vanessa Angélica Villarreal (Tiny Reparations)
Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life by Sofia Samatar (Soft Skull)
Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad (Black Cat)
There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)
When The Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Write like a Man: Jewish Masculinity and the New York Intellectuals by Ronnie A. Grinberg (Princeton University)