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Two of every three Clevelanders read at the seventh-grade level or below – making 66 percent of adult Clevelanders functionally…

This month, Adam Sockel and Jill Grunenwald, hosts of the “Professional Book Nerds” podcast, snagged a few moments with Colson…

Peter Ho Davies – a gracious, wise and observant British-born fiction writer – welcomed a question about the title of…

Viking, 207 pp, $22 In Zinzi Clemmons’ debut novel, “What We Lose,” grief shadows every page. But like Elizabeth Alexander’s…

Simon & Schuster, 256 pp. $24.99 In the midst of the book tour for her second memoir, “Surpassing Certainty: What My…

by Charles Ellenbogen Every once in a while, someone comes along – think Garrison Keillor, Richard Pryor, Spalding Gray –…

For a second year, Cleveland becomes a national literary destination during Cleveland Book Week, an extended celebration of books and…

The Lavender Graduation is an annual celebration that occurs on numerous campuses across the country, where graduating lesbian, gay, bisexual,…

Attendees at the Cleveland Foundation’s annual meeting May 10 got a colorful taste of literature in motion. The Tri-C Creative…

Set a reminder for the national broadcast premiere of “Good Luck Soup,” a 2016 documentary which tracks the multigenerational story…

how to get over  — the debut poetry collection from t’ai freedom ford — is part instruction manual, part black…

Watching Joshua Bennett perform his poetry is something like watching a Baptist preacher deliver a Sunday sermon. Once on stage,…

by Charles Ellenbogen This Anisfield-Wolf award winner is absolutely stunning. From its riveting opening pages until the truth of its…

The Cleveland Foundation today announced the winners of its 82nd Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2017 recipients of the only…

This sounds very corny but my life has been determined by two things that have been extremely important: love and violence. There is sorrow, pain and death, but there’s another parallel dimension, and that is love.

This roller-coaster mélange of poetry, anecdote, songs, interviews and transcripts is thoroughly entertaining yet requires every ounce of your concentration as he doubles back, bolts ahead or code-switches his way through the briar patch.

‘The Fortunes’ bends genre and race in ways that make it “a prophetic work in 2017,” according to Joyce Carol Oates.

What I wanted was for them to have the grand, sweeping narrative that they deserved, the kind of American history that belongs to the Wright Brothers and the astronauts.