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With a combination of deep learning, eloquence and a deft, original way of considering our national history and literature, [Delbanco] documents the human mise-en-scène in a way that matters today.

What I attempted to do, and I think all the other black arts poets attempted to do, is that we were about putting the African American and African back on the world stage.

Since her encounter with Dickinson, Smith has gravitated to poetry that employs plain language to probe the eternal, similar to the work of Elizabeth Bishop and Philip Larkin.

The cover of Jericho Brown’s new poetry collection, The Tradition, features a young black boy, perhaps 10 years old, surrounded…

“As a kid in Israel, my dream was to become a psychoanalyst and a filmmaker,” Ofra Bloch said in a…

Leila Chatti worked six years to create Deluge, 52 poems that the esteemed Copper Canyon Press will publish next year…

By Gabrielle Bychowski How do we talk about racism? How do we talk about sexism? These were two of the…

Zadie Smith, best known for her piercing comic novels, has won a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism for…

Join us for the Cleveland premiere of “Afterward,” a 94-minute documentary from Jerusalem-born psychoanalyst Ofra Bloch that explores the lingering…

By Gabrielle Bychowski Sitting at my desk, I set down my copy of A Room of One’s Own, looked over…

Jericho Brown will announce the new class of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners in Cleveland April 4. The charismatic and much-lauded…

Poet Claudia Rankine, born 56 years ago in Jamaica, returned to the city of her first college teaching post to…

For the second consecutive year, Anisfield-Wolf award-winning authors will close the Virginia Festival of the Book. On March 24, two…

Claudia Rankine and her “slender, musical book that arrives like a thunderclap” are coming to Cleveland, the first major literary event…

N. Scott Momaday, a captivating storyteller long considered “the dean of Native American letters,” is the new recipient of the…

As we bid adieu to 2018, allow us to shine a last, lingering reading light on ten highlights: the year’s…

Mark your calendars for a newcomer to Cleveland’s poetry scene — poet Leila Chatti will be at Loganberry Books December…

Look closely at the multicolored mural in the old Irishtown Bend in Cleveland and you’ll spot a small teal “JW”…

When Jesmyn Ward took the stage with Ayana Mathis, each novelist glanced around the warm, lush Maltz Performing Arts Center…