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News“Evicted” Author Matthew Desmond On Fixing America’s Broken Housing System
Matthew Desmond thinks America can’t see itself clearly. “We’re the richest democracy with the worst poverty. There’s not another advanced…
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NewsNational Book Critics Circle Awards Toast The Best Of 2017
The thrill of writing as clear as water ran through this year’s National Book Critics Circle awards, bookended by the…
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NewsNew Documentary “Dawnland” Explores Only Truth And Reconciliation Commission In The U.S.
Can the United States transition “from being an occupier to being a neighbor”? So asks gkisedtanamoogk, a Native man living…
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NewsJill Lepore Shares Political Optimism For A Divided Nation During CWRU Talk
Jill Lepore is restless. The Harvard historian prefers to walk while she thinks, and stand when she talks. And so…
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NewsPoet Leila Chatti Named The Inaugural Anisfield-Wolf Fellow At Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Leila Chatti, a poet who grew up in Michigan, will be the first Anisfield-Wolf Fellow in Writing and Editing, beginning…
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NewsProfessor Heather Shotton On Native Identity And Representation
As the #MeToo movement surges on, elevating the national conversation around sexual assault and gender inequality, Professor Heather Shotton believes…
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NewsAuthor Angie Thomas Shares Inspiration For “The Hate U Give” With Cleveland Public Library
In December, a suburban Houston school district yanked copies of the young-adult novel “The Hate U Give” from all 25…
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NewsPoet Elizabeth Alexander Becomes New President Of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Anisfield-Wolf poet Elizabeth Alexander will be the next president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, becoming the first woman to…
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NewsJournalist Nikole Hannah-Jones Breaks Down The Dangers Of Educational Segregation During CWRU Convocation
Nikole Hannah-Jones has no interest in frittering anyone’s time. “You would never hear me use the word ‘diversity’ except to…
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NewsREVIEW: “When They Call You A Terrorist” Takes Readers Inside The Black Lives Matter Movement
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement, is no stranger to resistance. Her searing new memoir, “When…
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NewsThe New York Times And PBS NewsHour Team Up For A New Book Club
Jesmyn Ward, whose fiction is drawing comparisons to William Faulkner’s, received a new honor this week: her 2017 novel, “Sing,…
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NewsNew Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship Addresses Diversity In Publishing
In a nationally unique innovation, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards has partnered with the Cleveland State University Poetry Center to create…
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NewsAnisfield-Wolf Authors To Close 2018 Virginia Book Festival With Panel On Racism And Reflections On Charlottesville
Coming off a successful year of literary prizes, three of the 2017 recipients of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards will reconvene…
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NewsREAD: Marilyn Chin’s New Poem, “Love Story”
Marilyn Chin is a frank and feminist poet who continues to enlarge the Anisfield-Wolf canon. Like Peter Ho Davies, she…
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NewsLISTEN: Karan Mahajan Interviewed On Professional Book Nerds Podcast
At the tail end of Cleveland Book Week, Adam Sockel and Jill Grunenwald, hosts of the “Professional Book Nerds” podcast,…
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BookNon-European Peoples of South Africa
Ralph Johnson Bunche was among the most prominent sociologists, diplomats, civil rights and peace activists of the 20th century.
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BookThe Negro College Graduate
Along with Ralph Bunche and other important scholars, Johnson worked with Gunnar Myrdal on his epic study of race in America from 1938-1940.
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NewsWATCH: Poets From Twelve Literary & Performative Arts Bring Anisfield-Wolf To Public Transit
One idea to make the morning commute more bearable for Clevelanders? Add a bit of poetry. That theory was tested…
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NewsLatest Inter|Urban Mural Celebrates Tyehimba Jess’ “Olio”
Tyehimba Jess is a strikingly architectural poet. It makes sense that his 14-line poem, “Blind Tom Plays for Confederate Troops,…
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NewsAndrew Solomon’s “Far From The Tree” Finds A New Life On The Big Screen
Four years after Andrew Solomon took home the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf nonfiction prize for “Far from the Tree,” his work is…