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Kevin Powers‘ The Yellow Birds has been called a “beautiful and horrifying trance of a book,” an unnerving look at…

While Laird Hunt was in Cleveland for the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf ceremony, we managed to nab him for a brief interview…

October 9 is the first anniversary of the grim day that masked gunmen stormed onto a bus in Pakistan and…

We caught up with Andrew Solomon a few hours before the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf ceremony to ask him his thoughts on…

When the starter failed Tuesday in A. Van Jordan’s car, the poet leased a rental and made a deadline dash…

Kevin Powers didn’t flinch when the novelist Thrity Umrigar asked him a pointed question—had he considered incorporating substantial Iraqi characters…

Eugene Gloria says that he is fascinated by failure. He was quick to describe a particular poem or two as…

In at least one way, Joe Brewster sounds like most fathers. “I want my son to have the best education…

Every afternoon, I wait in my children’s grade school library with the other parents for pick-up. The principal reads off…

Several years ago, Clevelander Anne Trubek attended the Anisfield-Wolf ceremony with an interest in hearing that year’s crop of winners…

Tonight, our spotlight shined on 10-year-old Gwyneth Wilde, a fifth-grader at the Falcon Academy of Creative Arts in Mogadore. Gwyneth…

Three times a week, a group of strangers gathers in the basement of an independent New York City bookstore. Their…

Photographer and artist Carrie Mae Weems paused in front of more than 600 rapt listeners in late August to take…

Anisfield-Wolf juror Rita Dove is 61 today.  Her father, chemist Ray Dove, took her and her brother from Akron, Ohio,…

The numbers are sobering: African American babies are twice as likely to die before their first birthday than white infants….