New Negro Painting Was is a haunting novel

Was is a haunting novel which explores the lives of characters intertwined with The Wizard of Oz: the “real” Dorothy Gale

Through insightful anecdotes

Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om

Though Ritsuka doesn't have a single doubt in his mind

The Collected Poems includes Hughes's lesser-known verse for children

New Negro Painting Was is a haunting novelFrom the man known as the father of the Harlem Renaissance comes a powerful, provocative, and affecting anthology of writers who shaped the Harlem Renaissance movement and who help us to consider the evolution of the African American in society. With stunning works by seminal black voices such as Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, and W. E. B. DuBois, Locke has constructed a vivid look at the new negro, the changing African American finding his place