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Anisfield-Wolf Fellow Zachary Thomas has sparked an idea that is igniting across Northeast Ohio. In 2016, as a sophomore at…

“The Rules,” a new poem by Anisfield-Wolf Fellow Leila Chatti, graced the inboxes of more than 350,000 subscribers, a landmark…

by Lisa Nielson Sometimes when I need serious advice, I visit Edith. Edith Anisfield Wolf, the founder of the Anisfield-Wolf…

Photographer, filmmaker, poet and novelist Gordon Parks died in 2006 at the age of 93. But the 1998 winner of…

Sophomore Elizabeth Metz was dismayed by students at Beachwood High School arguing whether slavery or the Holocaust was worse. Administrators…

by Jessica Yang I was five when I came to the U.S. from China. My first experiences of America were…

David W. Blight and Brent Staples – two Anisfield-Wolf Book Award recipients – discovered this week that each had won…

Eighteen months after the Unite the Right racist violence wracked Charlottesville, the 25th anniversary of the Virginia Festival of the…

There’s been a lot of reservation literature written. I wanted to have my characters struggle in the way that I struggled, and the way that I see other Native people struggle, with identity and authenticity.

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…