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We’ve got a summer reading list a mile long and another title just got added to the pile. Stephen L….

We don’t know what the weather is like where you live, but this weekend it’s going to hot and humid….

It’s a short poem but it’s also one of Gwendolyn Brooks‘ (pardon the pun) coolest. “We Real Cool,” published in…

In Geoffrey C. Ward’s Unforgivable Blackness: Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, we are treated to a front row seat…

We know we highlighted him a few weeks ago, but is something to be said for a man who is…

…you can hear about Mohsin Hamid’s role in getting the project to the big screen. Are you as excited for…

Often writers feel that urge to put their thoughts out in the world as young children. 2012 Anisfield-Wolf winner Esi…

We’ve been talking about Toni Morrison a lot lately, but we think it’s difficult to provide too much information on…

It’s not very likely to hear us expressing doubt about Ms. Toni Morrison‘s literary abilities. If anything, our appreciation for…

It’s so often repeated that it has lost most of its meaning, but the old saying is true: “You can’t…

In anticipation for Toni Morrison’s latest novel, Home, following the story of a Korean War veteran and his return to…

“This book is the first serious study of the phenomenon of dehumanization,” David Livingstone Smith says in this recent interview…

We’ll be spending this week exploring the lives and works of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Award winners. Today we’re recognizing Esi…

We’ll be spending this week exploring the lives and works of the 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Award winners. First up is David…

“The 2012 Anisfield-Wolf winners reflect the complexity of the issues of race and cultural diversity in our world,” said Henry…

An elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Blight works in many capacities in the world of public history, including on boards of museums and historical societies, and as a member of a small team of advisers to the 9/11 Memorial and Museum team of curators. 

These studies introduced me to the significance of evolutionary biology for understanding human nature, enabling me to come full circle by fusing my interest in the human mind with my earlier love of the natural world.

Loyalties were always mixed and the world inside the walls of my home was significantly different from the world beyond it.

We realize the headline is a bit of hyperbole but in researching Mr. Gaines for this week’s exploration of his…