Search Results: AC

Novelist Kamila Shamsie has a knack for titles. She called her talk in Cleveland “Why Weep for Stones?” and built…

Rowan Ricardo Phillips’ second book of poetry, Heaven, brims with 38 poems that ask “Who the hell’s Heaven is this?”…

He begins with that moment in Swing 46, which threw him into exploring a tradition that “works very hard to create an illusion of ease” and spontaneity, but also illuminates centuries of complex American culture.

Phillips’ words insists on the strangeness of difference—the classics haunt his poems, but so do roosters in Ohio, Led Zeppelin riffs in the basement and the Wu-Tang Clan.

Faderman crystalizes this trajectory in the words of activist Frank Kameny: ‘We started with nothing, and look what we have wrought!’

So I found myself going to this place with the smell of brand-new books, and I could take any book I wanted. It was amazing! I used to go there, and read and read and read. That was a transformative experience.

Readers wondering what to pick up this spring can crack any of the six books just awarded the National Book…

The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards is sponsoring “Good Luck Soup” at this year’s Cleveland International Film Festival. The two screenings are…

Spread over the opening pages of Angela Flournoy’s “The Turner House” is a family tree, its branches enumerating the 61…

Join us for the world premiere of “Good Luck Soup,” a 72-minute documentary on the experiences of Cleveland’s Hashiguchi family…

Pat Conroy, the Southern novelist and storyteller, was buried from St. Peter Catholic Church in Beaufort, S.C., surrounded by almost…

What to do when Fox News host Bill O’Reilly calls you out on his show, labeling you a “race-baiter”? If…

Almost a year before Matt de la Pena won the latest Newbery Medal—the highest honor in children’s literature—he told National…

When Jericho Brown won his Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, he spoke of his awe of Langston Hughes, calling his discovery of…

In March 2012, U.S. Representative Bobby Rush stood on the House floor dressed in a gray hooded sweatshirt, one month…

As the chair of the National Book Critics Circle‘s nonfiction committee, our awards manager Karen R. Long had a steady…

  Come learn more about the Cleveland that helped shape Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and Harvey Pekar. Teaching Cleveland has…

In a year characterized by racial urgency, the local Martin Luther King Jr. essay contest is expanding to accept entries…

by Ali McClain The beginning movements of this essay began with a complex question: Which author’s reading from the 80th…

by Dr. Anand Bhat In 2007, when I asked my driver in Caracas if evangelical Christianity had been making its…