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NewsNew Poetry Collection From Kevin Powers Places War’s Aftermath In Verse
“Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting” publishes this week, the first collection of poetry from Anisfield-Wolf fiction winner…
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NewsLibrary Journal Features 2014 Anisfield-Wolf Winners
As our profile begins to grow as a book award, from time to time we like to recognize some of…
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NewsMeet Our 2014 Winners
The Cleveland Foundation today announced the winners of its 79th annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2014 recipients of the only…
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2014 Press Release: Winners Announced
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NewsSimon Schama’s “The Story Of The Jews” Premieres On PBS
Historian Simon Schama is careful not to call his new PBS series the “definitive” look at Jewish history, but by…
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BookMy Promised Land
Encouraged by New Yorker Editor David Remnick, Shavit spent five years writing “My Promised Land” in English and Hebrew simultaneously. It asks basic questions: Why was Israel created? What has it achieved? What went wrong? Will it survive?
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BookThe Big Smoke
A marvelous, nuanced, polyphonic exploration of the life of boxer Jack Johnson, the first African-American heavyweight world champion.
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BookA Constellation of Vital Phenomena
Marra takes his title from a medical dictionary definition of life and his inspiration, in part, from the fact that no previous English language novel was set in a region that has been fertile soil for Leo Tolstoy, Mikhail Lermontov and Alexandr Pushkin.
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AuthorGeorge Lamming
I am always feeling terrified of being known; not because they really know you, but simply because their claim to knowledge is a concealed attempt to destroy you.
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AuthorWilson Harris
The interior of Guyana came alive to me, and seemed like another planet […] the great waterfalls and trees—so different from the coast where I was born.
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NewsZadie Smith And Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Talk Race, Romance Novels And Beyonce At The Schomburg Center
Novelists Zadie Smith and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – both Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners — displayed a warm, comfortable familiarity on…
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NewsJesmyn Ward Stresses Importance Of Telling Stories That Matter During Recent Visit To Cleveland
On a freezing, overcast March day, the writer Jesmyn Ward made her first foray to Cleveland. She barely smiled as…
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News“Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth” Premieres At Cleveland International Film Festival
For the first time, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards will sponsor a movie at the Cleveland International Film Festival: the documentary,…
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NewsChimamanda Ngozi Adichie Wins National Book Critics Award For “Americanah”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Americanah” took the top prize for fiction at the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Awards . Karen Long,…
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NewsWriting Across Race Can Be Treacherous
Occasionally, a white writer will turn to Mat Johnson, the novelist who created the much-praised “Pym” and “Hunting in Harlem,”…
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NewsBeneath The Pain: Andrew Solomon Interviews Peter Lanza, Father Of Sandy Hook Shooter Adam Lanza
Andrew Solomon dedicated a chapter of his Anisfield-Wolf winning Far from the Tree on families whose children have committed serious crimes. He…
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NewsJames McBride Delivers Soul-Stirring Renditions Of Gospel Favorites During “Good Lord Bird” Tour
Few writers have made the kind of spectacular, multimedia splash onto the literary scene the way James McBride has. McBride,…
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NewsVIDEO: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Talks Feminism, Fashion, And Politics
Fresh off a feature on Beyonce’s secret album, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie stopped by HuffPost Live to talk about how her…
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NewsVIDEO: “I, Too, Am Harvard” Highlights Frustration Of Black Students In Predominately White Spaces
A play about the realities of black students at Harvard University debuts Friday at the Black Arts Festival on the…
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NewsWill “My Brother’s Keeper” Be Obama’s Lasting Legacy?
During January’s State of the Union address, President Obama included one sentence midway through his remarks that didn’t receive much…