toni morrison
The tropes that birth the hero
It is admirable that Bonhoeffer endeavors to highlight Black life. But one must be careful that the Black life of one’s representation is not playing in the dark of caricatured Black people.
The voice of God in Malamud, O’Connor, Updike, and Morrison
Peter C. Brown’s project is urgent and personal.
Reading Toni Morrison in Advent
A seasonal practice: cultivate the patient gaze to describe life as we find it.
The kinds of stories Toni Morrison told
No one has done more to transform the language for thinking about America’s racial past.
The holiness of Toni Morrison’s fictional worlds
Faith, in Morrison’s novels, is about improvising a way toward freedom.
Toni Morrison writes about race, religion, and her own fiction
Our language isn’t neutral. It has history embedded within it.
Imagining our way out of systems of disgrace
Simone Drake’s book helps readers grow in understanding of a deeply marginalized group: black men.
God Help the Child, by Toni Morrison
In her 11th novel Toni Morrison returns to the foundation of most of her fiction: childhood and its traumatic effects.
What Twain, Du Bois, and my family each lost
Today is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day. At 7 p.m., thousands of individuals will gently sway lit candles to remember those lost girls and boys.
The day came from one of Ronald Reagan’s last acts as president.