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Viking, 207 pp, $22 In Zinzi Clemmons’ debut novel, “What We Lose,” grief shadows every page. But like Elizabeth Alexander’s…

Simon & Schuster, 256 pp. $24.99 In the midst of the book tour for her second memoir, “Surpassing Certainty: What My…

by Charles Ellenbogen Every once in a while, someone comes along – think Garrison Keillor, Richard Pryor, Spalding Gray –…

For a second year, Cleveland becomes a national literary destination during Cleveland Book Week, an extended celebration of books and…

The Lavender Graduation is an annual celebration that occurs on numerous campuses across the country, where graduating lesbian, gay, bisexual,…

Attendees at the Cleveland Foundation’s annual meeting May 10 got a colorful taste of literature in motion. The Tri-C Creative…

how to get over  — the debut poetry collection from t’ai freedom ford — is part instruction manual, part black…

Watching Joshua Bennett perform his poetry is something like watching a Baptist preacher deliver a Sunday sermon. Once on stage,…

by Charles Ellenbogen This Anisfield-Wolf award winner is absolutely stunning. From its riveting opening pages until the truth of its…

The Cleveland Foundation today announced the winners of its 82nd Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. The 2017 recipients of the only…

This sounds very corny but my life has been determined by two things that have been extremely important: love and violence. There is sorrow, pain and death, but there’s another parallel dimension, and that is love.

This roller-coaster mélange of poetry, anecdote, songs, interviews and transcripts is thoroughly entertaining yet requires every ounce of your concentration as he doubles back, bolts ahead or code-switches his way through the briar patch.

‘The Fortunes’ bends genre and race in ways that make it “a prophetic work in 2017,” according to Joyce Carol Oates.

What I wanted was for them to have the grand, sweeping narrative that they deserved, the kind of American history that belongs to the Wright Brothers and the astronauts.

This is what it felt like to be a bomb. You were coiled up, majestic with blackness, unaware that the universe outside you existed, and then a wire snapped and ripped open your eyelids all the way around and you had a vision of the world in 360 degrees, and everything in your purview was doomed by seeing.

Poet and novelist Louise Erdrich, wiping tears from her eyes, accepted the National Book Critics Circle Award Thursday night for…

The blazing new novel from Mohsin Hamid opens with this sentence: “In a city swollen by refugees but still mostly…

The Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges famously said, “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”…

Coretta Scott King begins her posthumous new memoir with a terrific metaphor: “Most people know me as Mrs. King. The…

Sixty-six writers and artists – including seven Anisfield-Wolf recipients and two jury members – wrote an open letter to President…