In this new short story collection, John Edgar Wideman blends the historical and the imaginary, t...

Antoine Leperlier (b. 1953) is a trained visual artist and painter. He has been working as a free...

The first ever collection of John Edgar Wideman’s most influential essays and articles, five deca...

'John Edgar Wideman's 'slaveroad' is a palimpsest of physical, social, and psychological terrain,...

In plague-ridden eighteenth-century Philadelphia, a young itinerant black preacher searches for a...

A multilayered memoir of basketball, family, home, love, and race, John Edgar Wideman's Hoop Root...

'Fiction facts are what the artist creates. Good writing is always about things that are importan...

By turns subtle and intense, disturbing and elusive, the stories in this collection are ultimatel...

A philosopher, psychiatrist, and political activist, Frantz Fanon was a fierce, acute critic of r...

A redemptive, healing novel, Two Cities brings to brilliant culmination the themes John Edgar Wid...

In God's Gym, the celebrated author John Edgar Wideman offers stories that pulse with emotional e...

John Edgar Wideman's books include Writing to Save a Life, American Histories, Brothers and Keepe...

'In this singular collection, John Edgar Wideman, the acclaimed author of Writing to Save a Life,...

“A rare triumph” (The New York Times Book Review), this powerful memoir about the divergent paths...

A powerful and “stunning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) selection of the best of John Edgar...

Wideman 'traces the life of the father of iconic civil rights martyr Emmett Till--a man who was e...

John Edgar Wideman's books include Writing to Save a Life, Philadelphia Fire, American Histories,...

*A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of the Year* From John Edgar Wideman, a modern “master of...

Sports have long served as inspiration for poetry -- the ancient Greeks wrote odes in praise of t...

Philadelphia Fire, now with a new introduction by prominent scholar and award-winning writer Iman...

'In this singular collection, John Edgar Wideman, the acclaimed author of Writing to Save a Life,...

Navigating a range of subjects and tone, Wideman challenges the boundaries of traditional forms a...

Wideman 'traces the life of the father of iconic civil rights martyr Emmett Till--a man who was e...

?Few books make history and fewer still become foundational texts for the movements and struggles...

To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction, John...

A powerful and “stunning” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) selection of the best of John Edgar...

A stunning collection of all new stories from the twice winner of the PEN Faulkner Award - essent...

*A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Book of the Year* From John Edgar Wideman, a modern “master of...

?This is truly inimitable storytelling' Observer'[A] master of language' New York TimesA boy stan...

In 1983, The Homewood Trilogy signaled the arrival of a major voice in American literature. Forty...

'John Edgar Wideman's 'slaveroad' is a palimpsest of physical, social, and psychological terrain,...