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by Lisa Nielson Sometimes when I need serious advice, I visit Edith. Edith Anisfield Wolf, the founder of the Anisfield-Wolf…

Sophomore Elizabeth Metz was dismayed by students at Beachwood High School arguing whether slavery or the Holocaust was worse. Administrators…

by Jessica Yang I was five when I came to the U.S. from China. My first experiences of America were…

David W. Blight and Brent Staples – two Anisfield-Wolf Book Award recipients – discovered this week that each had won…

Eighteen months after the Unite the Right racist violence wracked Charlottesville, the 25th anniversary of the Virginia Festival of the…

There’s been a lot of reservation literature written. I wanted to have my characters struggle in the way that I struggled, and the way that I see other Native people struggle, with identity and authenticity.

With a combination of deep learning, eloquence and a deft, original way of considering our national history and literature, [Delbanco] documents the human mise-en-scène in a way that matters today.

What I attempted to do, and I think all the other black arts poets attempted to do, is that we were about putting the African American and African back on the world stage.

Since her encounter with Dickinson, Smith has gravitated to poetry that employs plain language to probe the eternal, similar to the work of Elizabeth Bishop and Philip Larkin.

The cover of Jericho Brown’s new poetry collection, The Tradition, features a young black boy, perhaps 10 years old, surrounded…

“As a kid in Israel, my dream was to become a psychoanalyst and a filmmaker,” Ofra Bloch said in a…

Leila Chatti worked six years to create Deluge, 52 poems that the esteemed Copper Canyon Press will publish next year…

Zadie Smith, best known for her piercing comic novels, has won a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism for…

Join us for the Cleveland premiere of “Afterward,” a 94-minute documentary from Jerusalem-born psychoanalyst Ofra Bloch that explores the lingering…

By Gabrielle Bychowski Sitting at my desk, I set down my copy of A Room of One’s Own, looked over…

Jericho Brown will announce the new class of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award winners in Cleveland April 4. The charismatic and much-lauded…

For the second consecutive year, Anisfield-Wolf award-winning authors will close the Virginia Festival of the Book. On March 24, two…

Claudia Rankine and her “slender, musical book that arrives like a thunderclap” are coming to Cleveland, the first major literary event…

N. Scott Momaday, a captivating storyteller long considered “the dean of Native American letters,” is the new recipient of the…

As we bid adieu to 2018, allow us to shine a last, lingering reading light on ten highlights: the year’s…