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For most of her childhood, professor Daisy Hernández, believed her aunt Dora Capunay Sosa died from eating a contaminated apple….

What connects American Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet across 400 years to rapper Cardi B? The answer, for Lillian Faderman, is…

By Brandi Larsen Isabel Allende has created a lifetime’s body of work full of essential reads. “Violeta,” her latest novel,…

Cave Canem and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards invite you to celebrate Black History Month by joining in “A Tribute to…

“Recitatif,” a rare Toni Morrison short story, arrives in book form today with a rigorous, close reading from London critic…

In a career spanning nearly 60 years and encompassing over 40 publications, Samuel R. Delany has written memoirs, novels, literary…

Set in a fictional New York City public housing project in 1969, “Deacon King Kong” begins with a shooting. But…

Four Anisfield-Wolf poets distilled their lines into an hour-long symphony of 15 voices. All are chancellors of the American Academy…

Born in Mississippi on Confederate Memorial Day in 1966, Natasha Trethewey’s existence was the result of an interracial marriage, still…

In “Obit,” poet Victoria Chang prefers the stark, objective language of the journalistic obituary form to the elegy, overflowing with…

We’re all too familiar with the recitation of Black history—both in the US and globally—as an unrelenting catalog of sorrow…

Pittsburgh fiction writer Deesha Philyaw dedicated her award-winning short story collection to her daughters “and for everyone trying to get…

Join the Ursuline College community for an afternoon conversation with former U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, winner of the 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award…

This year’s virtual showcase – expanded beyond its usual timeframe – celebrated present and past Anisfield-Wolf Book Award (AWBA) winners…