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Just Us by Claudia Rankine

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Carmen Machado and Saidiya Hartman in NY
Susan Steinberg reading from her novel Machine
Guests at the Graywolf Literary Gala
Postcolonial Love Poem Cover

Let me call my anxiety, desire, then. / Let me call it, a garden.

from POSTCOLONIAL LOVE POEM by Natalie Diaz

New and Noteworthy

God of Nothingness
God of Nothingness
Mark Wunderlich
Wild Swims
Wild Swims
Dorthe Nors, Misha Hoekstra
Abundance
Abundance
Jakob Guanzon
My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree
My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree
Tracy Smith, Yi Lei, Changtai Bi
Fugitive Atlas
Fugitive Atlas
Khaled Mattawa
New stories from the author of TOMB SONG
Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino
Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino
Julián Herbert, Christina MacSweeney
New collection from Pulitzer winner
That Was Now, This Is Then
That Was Now, This Is Then
Vijay Seshadri
Completion of epic trilogy
Alexandria
Alexandria
Paul Kingsnorth
Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Postcolonial Love Poem
Postcolonial Love Poem
Natalie Diaz
Shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize
This Mournable Body
This Mournable Body
Tsitsi Dangarembga
New nonfiction from Claudia Rankine
Just Us
Just Us
Claudia Rankine
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry
Guillotine
Guillotine
Eduardo Corral
Winner of the Int'l Booker Prize
The Discomfort of Evening
The Discomfort of Evening
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Michele Hutchison
Danez Smith is our president.
Homie
Homie
Danez Smith
New novel from “one of our culture’s preeminent novelists”
Telephone
Telephone
Percival Everett
Debut novel about familial and cultural breakdown in Cuba
The Fallen
The Fallen
Carlos Manuel Alvarez, Frank Wynne
"Sonically brilliant poems that refuse borders. . . "
Catrachos
Catrachos
Roy Guzman
Timely nonfiction about our national divide
American Harvest
American Harvest
Marie Mockett
Winner of the Walt Whitman Award
The More Extravagant Feast
The More Extravagant Feast
Leah Green
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Author Photo of William Kittredge
William Kittredge (1932–2020)
Graywolf Press celebrates the life and work of author William Kittredge, who died December 4 in Montana. Read full story »
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Author Claudia Rankine answers your questions about CITIZEN
Claudia Rankine, author of the July pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions about CITIZEN. Read full story »

Citizen in the Classroom

Claudia Rankine's groundbreaking Citizen: An American Lyric and other books have inspired programming and sparked conversations in schools, universities, and communities across the country. (Photo credit: DP Jolly.)

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The Dragons, the Giant, the Women by Wayétu Moore

Graywolf gave my story a chance when few others would. It's an honor and a privilege to join the roster of this world-class press, committed to disrupting the canon by taking wild, unpopular, beautiful chances.

Wayétu Moore