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The Enduring Legacy Of Gordon Parks Featured At Cleveland Museum Of Art
Photographer, filmmaker, poet and novelist Gordon Parks died in 2006 at the age of 93. But the 1998 winner of…
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Four Cleveland Students Honored For Their Social Justice Work
Sophomore Elizabeth Metz was dismayed by students at Beachwood High School arguing whether slavery or the Holocaust was worse. Administrators…
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What Anisfield-Wolf Taught Me: Finding Strength In My Immigrant Identity
by Jessica Yang I was five when I came to the U.S. from China. My first experiences of America were…
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Anisfield-Wolf -Winning Authors Nab Two Pulitzer Prizes
David W. Blight and Brent Staples – two Anisfield-Wolf Book Award recipients – discovered this week that each had won…
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“A World Built On Bondage”: Anisfield-Wolf Authors Close The 2019 Virginia Festival Of The Book
Eighteen months after the Unite the Right racist violence wracked Charlottesville, the 25th anniversary of the Virginia Festival of the…
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Jericho Brown’s New Poetry Collection “The Tradition” A Daring, Inventive Body Of Work
The cover of Jericho Brown’s new poetry collection, The Tradition, features a young black boy, perhaps 10 years old, surrounded…
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Interview with “Afterward” Director Ofra Bloch
“As a kid in Israel, my dream was to become a psychoanalyst and a filmmaker,” Ofra Bloch said in a…
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Forthcoming Poetry Collection “Deluge” A Stunning Debut For Leila Chatti
Leila Chatti worked six years to create Deluge, 52 poems that the esteemed Copper Canyon Press will publish next year…
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Teaching Anisfield-Wolf In The Classroom
By Gabrielle Bychowski How do we talk about racism? How do we talk about sexism? These were two of the…
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Zadie Smith’s “Feel Free” Honored At National Book Critics Circle Awards
Zadie Smith, best known for her piercing comic novels, has won a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism for…
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“Afterward,” New Film On Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Premieres At The Cleveland International Film Festival
Join us for the Cleveland premiere of “Afterward,” a 94-minute documentary from Jerusalem-born psychoanalyst Ofra Bloch that explores the lingering…
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A Shelf of One’s Own – An Argument for Transgender Literature
By Gabrielle Bychowski Sitting at my desk, I set down my copy of A Room of One’s Own, looked over…