THE PROPHETS by Robert Jones Jr. was featured on BLACK BUCK author Mateo Askaripour’s list of “10 Books that ‘Disrupted’ the Literary Status Quo” on Goodreads. He writes: "Playing with time, history, and shifting ideas of power, Jones’ novel focuses on the love between two enslaved Black men, producing a story that despite never being told before, was one the world needed. I know I did. And that is nothing to say of what he does at the line level, turning his sentences into vehicles for multiple meanings, ways of thinking, and forms of feeling in a way that only someone who has truly dedicated themselves to their craft, and the people they want to serve through their work, ever can." G.P. Putnam’s Sons published the novel on January 5, 2021.