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A bold decision to start a school in an underserved Cleveland neighborhood, made by the leaders of a 150-year-old institution,…

Poet Russell Atkins, his hair a white halo, his torso tucked into a wheelchair, rolled onto the stage of the…

by Tara Jefferson with additional reporting by Karen R. Long “Kent State University, how ya feeling tonight?” actress and LGBT…

For a stretch in the 1970s, television producer Norman Lear had nine shows on the air at once—with four in…

The biggest laugh during Ari Shavit’s serious, passionate talk about the Middle East came at the end, when a questioner…

New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow opens his memoir, “Fire Up In My Bones,” with a face full of…

“Cleveland has always been incredibly nice to me,” novelist Zadie Smith said as she took the podium at Case Western…

Anisfield-Wolf winning novelist Laird Hunt capped his book tour for the newly-released “Neverhome” by returning to Cleveland this week, arriving…

Brooklyn, N.Y. — The Brooklyn Book Festival—a celebratory, cerebral, free event that runs one Sunday in September—attracted tens of thousands of readers,…

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is an intoxicating first book about intersecting lives in war-torn Chechnya. The novel begins as…

Ari Shavit, a columnist for Jerusalem’s daily newspaper Haaretz, spent five years writing My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of…

Adrian Matejka’s “The Big Smoke” is a nuanced, polyphonic book that explores the life of boxer Jack Johnson, the first…

Faded fight posters on the walls at Cleveland’s Old Angle boxing gym served as an authentic backdrop for the poetry…

Laird Hunt’s transfixing new novel “Neverhome” unspools in the voice of a Civil War soldier.  It works upon the reader…

Last year, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie created Ifemelu, the protagonist and blogger in her novel “Americanah,” one of the smartest and…

For James LeVan, a 16-year-old Cleveland student at Glenville High School, police brutality became top of mind early this year….

Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, national correspondent for The Atlantic magazine, walked to the lectern at the City Club of Cleveland and…

Anthony Marra startled the literary world in 2013 with his stunner of a debut, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena. His…

The melodic beckoning of Caribbean steel-pan drum greeted guests at the Midwestern premier of Dutch filmmaker Ida Does’ Derek Walcott…

On the cusp of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards ceremony, join awards manager Karen R. Long for a personal introduction to…