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I often failed at assimilation but learned all of the skills along the way through trial and error. Sometimes the people I wanted to assimilate with didn’t see me, but I still got the practice. I’m not saying it’s a positive thing. It just is. Therefore, I’m nobody, who are you? Yet, I’m also everybody.

Samuel R. Delany, a science fiction icon and pioneer in gay literature, began his childhood in the living quarters atop…

Deacon King Kong […] is robust and funny, confronting tragedy with an ebullient comic spirit, “pulling its punches” in unexpected ways that repudiate disaster and resound just right.

The year before I was old enough to drive, [my mother] let me practice steering the car on long stretches of empty highway. I’d reach across the center console and take the wheel, leaning into her, my back against her chest, following the arc of the sun west toward home.

All too often, African countries, African literatures, get thrown together and the differences between them are elided. What is Zambian…

What I was trying to do being hard of hearing, was to navigate the questions of: At which point is…

Lisa Nielson is an Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. She has a PhD in historical musicology, with…

You know what I found out about my teaching? My teaching made me much more human. Some of the ideas…

The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards is proud to present The Asterisk*, a new podcast hosted by Karen R. Long, manager of…

“When somebody told me that they had just seen the Confederate flag on TV being carried around the Capitol, my…

This lesson plan provides background information, discussion questions, key quotations and activities to help explore Kevin Young’s 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Award-winning…

Gabrielle Bychowski is an Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University, teaching courses on transgender and intersex history, disability culture,…

This lesson plan guides educators in teaching children’s books to young adult and adult learners. In addition to offering some…

Cara Byrne, PhD is a lecturer in English at Case Western Reserve University In her 2018 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award…

“Quiet as it is kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941 . . . Not even the…

Fans of Rita Dove’s 2009 poetry collection “Sonata Mulattica” can dive into the story behind the poems in a new podcast produced…

Enjoy this reimagined ceremony turned documentary, streaming now. It is hosted by Jury Chair Henry Louis Gates Jr. and features…

Students will explore author Tommy Orange’s development of “There There” and its connection to William Shakespeare The Tempest. Developed by…

Our slate of virtual programming during this year’s Cleveland Book Week means you have continued access, including our collaborations with…