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BookThe Association of Small Bombs
This is what it felt like to be a bomb. You were coiled up, majestic with blackness, unaware that the universe outside you existed, and then a wire snapped and ripped open your eyelids all the way around and you had a vision of the world in 360 degrees, and everything in your purview was doomed by seeing.
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NewsLouise Erdrich Wins Big At National Book Critics Circle Awards, Urges Writers To “Be Fierce And Dangerous About The Truth”
Poet and novelist Louise Erdrich, wiping tears from her eyes, accepted the National Book Critics Circle Award Thursday night for…
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NewsREVIEW: Mohsin Hamid’s “Exit West” Blazes Fresh Ground In Hot Political Climate
The blazing new novel from Mohsin Hamid opens with this sentence: “In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly…
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NewsNew Documentary “The Revival” Gives Queer Black Women The Mic
If self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet” Audre Lorde were alive today, you might find her celebrating with the women…
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News“Thirty Million Words” Initiative Empowers Parents To Use Everyday Conversation As A Tool To Build Strong Brains
The Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges famously said, “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”…
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NewsCoretta Scott King’s Posthumous Memoir Details The Woman Beyond The King Name
Coretta Scott King begins her posthumous new memoir with a terrific metaphor: “Most people know me as Mrs. King. The…
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NewsAnisfield-Wolf Authors Protest “Muslim Ban” In An Open Letter To President Trump
Sixty-six writers and artists – including seven Anisfield-Wolf recipients and two jury members – wrote an open letter to President…
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NewsNovelist Laird Hunt On The Women Who Influenced His Midwestern Storytelling
Laird Hunt, Wikipedia will tell you, “is an American writer, translator and academic.” True, as far as that goes. But…
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NewsAuthor Margot Lee Shetterly Shares “Hidden Figures” Origin Story At Case Western Reserve University
Seven years ago, Hidden Figures author Margot Lee Shetterly discovered a great untold story in her own hometown. Shetterly, 47, grew up in…
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NewsREVIEW: Laird Hunt’s “The Evening Road”
The Evening Road returns Laird Hunt to Indiana, where the Anisfield-Wolf winner lived on his grandmother’s farm during his high…
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NewsIn Jacqueline Woodson’s World, The Hard Conversations Come Easy
Karen R. Long contributed to the reporting. Every evening in her four-story Brooklyn townhouse, author Jacqueline Woodson and her partner…
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NewsA Literary President: Obama Reflects On The Books That Gave Him Stamina And Resolve
Late at night and through eight grueling years, literature helped sustain the outgoing president of the United States. In a…
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News“Hidden Figures” Is Getting A Lot Of Hollywood Buzz, But Don’t Forget About The Book
Type “scientist” into Google and what images do you find? As author Margot Lee Shetterly would describe it, the results are…
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News“Racism Does Not Die Easily”: Reflections On Parallels Between The Japanese And Muslim Experience In America
by Matthew Hashiguchi, documentary filmmaker Over the past year, I’ve been asked many times about the correlation between Japanese Americans…
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NewsLet These Books — From Poetry To The Political — Kick Off Your 2017 Reading List
How does one structure a year in reading? The New York Times published the answers of 47 writers and artists…
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NewsWinners Of 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Bring Courage To Literature
Marilynne Robinson – she of the incandescent, Pulitzer-winning prose – wasn’t thinking about her celebrated fiction last month, even though…
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NewsTavis Smiley Brings “Courting Justice” To Cleveland
Cross the American criminal justice system, and – if you are unlucky — prepare for crushing debt. Here are…
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NewsHistorian Michael Twitty Sets “A Place At The Table,” Serves Up A Hearty Helping Of Culinary Justice
“Call soul food what it is: the edible scripture of the Black aesthetic, the culinary answer to jazz, memory food…
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News“This Is Unreal”: Rep. John Lewis’ Acceptance Speech At 2016 National Book Awards
A visibly emotional John Lewis took to the podium at the 2016 National Book Awards to accept this year’s prize for…