The irony of banning a book about how we can’t escape our history.
toni morrison
The voice of God in Malamud, O’Connor, Updike, and Morrison
Peter C. Brown’s project is urgent and personal.
A seasonal practice: cultivate the patient gaze to describe life as we find it.
No one has done more to transform the language for thinking about America’s racial past.
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.
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.
