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In her fourth volume of poetry, she experiments with quatrains, sonnets, haiku, allegories and elegies in precise words whose effect are brazen, icy yet inflamed.

An epic chorus-in-the-round, with some 30 narrators, each in various patois, telling their story as it intersects with the Singer, as James calls the reggae legend over these 700 pages.

A scrupulous, revelatory archival investigation of some 2,000 people enslaved across three generations: roughly half on a Jamaican sugar plantation called Mesopotamia and half on Mount Airy, a Virginia tidewater plantation growing tobacco and grain.

Davis’ influence was deep, having changed ‘traditional approaches to intellectual history by embedding ideas in social and political action and institutions.’

An assistant professor of English at Emory University in Atlanta, Brown is celebrated for his intense musicality, lyrical clarity and muscular impact.

Anisfield-Wolf SAGES Fellow Lisa Nielson had the honor of introducing Chang-Rae Lee to the packed audience at the 2015 Writers…

by Sarah Marcus Like many of my days spent teaching, today feels hard, but important. By 10 a.m. I’ve already…

Bryan Stevenson needs no notes. Not for his TED Talk, not for his Daily Show appearance, and not for his…

Famed dancer and choreographer Judith Jamison warned a recent audience that she has a tendency to ramble: “I will be…

“They’re going to throw me in director’s jail,” director Ava DuVernay remembered thinking before premiering “Selma” at the American Film…

HBO will turn Ari Shavit’s My Promised Land into a television documentary, CEO and chairman Richard Pleper announced at the…

Poet Rita Dove introduced Toni Morrison—the only living American Nobel recipient in literature—with joy and grace and poetry at the…

Just who is an American Indian? For hundreds of years, this riddle of identity has vexed the federal government and…

Longtime biographer Arnold Rampersad said his new volume, The Selected Letters of Langston Hughes, reveals a “deeper, more complicated” man than…

An introspective, respectful and sold-out City Club audience gathered to consider the long march to equality for transgender people in…

by Rachel Burstein Our experience of a book can be changed—and enriched—when we read it alongside people who are different…

In a popular U.S. high school history textbook, The Americans, there is only one sentence—in passive voice—on housing discrimination among…

Bryan Stevenson—campaigner against mass incarceration and author of a new report linking the ubiquity of lynching in the American South…

People of color make up close to 40 percent of the current U.S. population, so what would you do about…