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The new novel from Laird Hunt, “In the House in the Dark of the Woods,” has the feel of a…

Poet Toi Derricotte, whose 1998 prose publication “The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey” remains a pillar of American literature, has…

N. Scott Momaday began with horses and ended with bears. He spoke of the sacredness of both. At 84, the…

The third annual Cleveland Book Week runs this year from Sept. 21-29, and will celebrate present and past Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards…

Days ahead of the theatrical debut of the documentary film adapted from his book, Far From the Tree, author Andrew Solomon reflected…

In 1970, Harvey Milk, a boisterous, restless New Yorker, turned 40 without a sense of having accomplished much. But in…

Works by Langston Hughes, Zadie Smith and Toni Morrison will soon have a new place to call home. All three…

A Shout in the Ruins has a ring to it – both as a book and as a title that…

Add Isabel Allende‘s groundbreaking first novel, “The House of the Spirits,” to the golden age of television adaptations. Streaming giant…

Former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey began her talk at Kent State University by claiming kinship with the audience. “I…

At 87, Toni Morrison is a direct woman. The Nobel laureate in literature has long contemplated her legacy, and the…

Boston-based filmmaker Adam Mazo is quick to admit that he knew little about Native populations growing up in Minnesota. He’s…

The Cleveland Foundation today unveiled the winners of its 83rd Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. Marlon James, a 2015 Anisfield-Wolf honoree, made…

His writing emphasizes the radical mystery of nature, and he believes that ‘the highest human purpose is to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.’

In its three sections, the reader finds prose memoir and poems in historical persona, including the voice of Jim Limber, the mixed-race son whom Jefferson Davis adopted during the last year of the Civil War.

Growing up in DeLisle, Mississippi has influenced me in many ways. Growing up here taught me to appreciate beauty, the beauty of the bayous and of the forests and of the Gulf. Growing up in this community taught me to appreciate storytelling, taught me to appreciate language.

The word “bunk” itself comes from politics, sourced to a congressional debate over the Missouri Compromise and slavery. Young connects the timing of the development of our modern notion of race—itself a falsehood—with the coining of the word ‘hoax.’

Matthew Desmond thinks America can’t see itself clearly. “We’re the richest democracy with the worst poverty. There’s not another advanced…

The thrill of writing as clear as water ran through this year’s National Book Critics Circle awards, bookended by the…

Can the United States transition “from being an occupier to being a neighbor”? So asks gkisedtanamoogk, a Native man living…