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Reverse-Gentrification of the Literary World

Akashic Books

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Featured: Black Interest

Even in Paradise

A modern-day King Lear, a novel of greed, resentment, jealousy, betrayal, and romance set in Trinidad, Jamaica, and Barbados.

Mr. Loverman

A groundbreaking, hilarious novel about two elder gay Caribbean men coming to terms with being closeted in a changing world.

The System of Dante’s Hell

A reissue of a 1965 novel, a remarkable narrative of childhood and youth, spiraling out of Dante’s Inferno.

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Upcoming Events

George Pelecanos — Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (Washington, DC)

5/1/24, 7:00pm

George Pelecanos presents Buster: A Dog

Kevin Holohan — Irish Arts Center (New York, NY)

5/2/24, 7:00pm

Kevin Holohan presents So You Wanna Run a Country? in conversation with Joseph O’Neill

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