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Mary Fecteau is a senior producer at Ideastream Public Media and director of the 2020 and 2021 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards…

Cleveland Book Week features a one-hour documentary with historian Vincent Brown, poet Victoria Chang, memoirist Natasha Trethewey, novelist James McBride,…

Cleveland Book Week features a one-hour documentary with historian Vincent Brown, poet Victoria Chang, memoirist Natasha Trethewey, novelist James McBride,…

Viewers will have the opportunity to stream free Cleveland International Film Festival documentaries, all with an Anisfield-Wolfian flavor, from September…

Meet the author of this much-anticipated young adult series opener in the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Rainforest. In “Beasts of Prey,” fate…

The William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage Series brings the literary world’s best writers to Cleveland. The 2021-2022 series is…

Deesha Philyaw will deliver the 2021 Langston Hughes Literary keynote at the 2021 GLAAWC conference at 11 am. Her debut…

Novelist Marlon James and Historian Vincent Brown will crack open their ideas in a unique conversation centered on Jamaica. The…

What is the schedule for CIFF Streams + Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards film events?For a list of film events and their…

The holiday of Juneteenth is deepening its mark on American history. The U.S. Senate voted unanimously this week to make…

By Lisa Nielson Almost 90 years ago, two women quietly cooked up what is to this day the only juried…

She [Zora Neale Hurston] was herself, like all these individuals, a contrarian. And she wondered during the Second World War,…

“She used to sing Chinese poetry to me, and she was illiterate, but she had memorized hundreds of poems and…

“There was just no decent literature, no history about people like me. And finally, in the 1970s the atmosphere was…

“It’s hard to joke your way out of spaces of physical violence that we’re seeing many people having to struggle…

Hurricane Maria scythed more than 3,000 souls on Puerto Rico, according to the official death toll. Among that number was…

The Cleveland Foundation today unveiled the winners of its 86th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2021 recipients of the only…

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…

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.