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 by Gail Arnoff “I was not sorry when my brother died.” So begins Tsi Tsi Dangarembga’s semi-autobiographical novel Nervous Conditions,…

In one compelling segment from the 2014 documentary, “I’m Not Racist…Am I?” high school students huddle around a board game…

Five winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book award in fiction are standing up to publicly, “as a matter of conscience, oppose,…

Thinking about gaps in our communal memory has long occupied Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. In a 1989 interview, she said:…

National Poetry Month, celebrated every April for the past 20 years, became a little less abstract for Cleveland students this…

When Andrew Solomon went to Finland to promote The Noonday Demon, his ground-breaking 2001 book on depression, he landed on…

Hours before accepting her 2015 Anisfield-Wolf award, Marilyn Chin claimed “activist poet” as her mantle:  “I’ve been writing poetry to…

Novelist Kamila Shamsie has a knack for titles. She called her talk in Cleveland “Why Weep for Stones?” and built…

Rowan Ricardo Phillips’ second book of poetry, Heaven, brims with 38 poems that ask “Who the hell’s Heaven is this?”…

Morris is deeply interested in the tensions of home and away, which can be seen in the immigrant and Great Migration characters populating “The Jazz Palace,” both fictional and actual.

He begins with that moment in Swing 46, which threw him into exploring a tradition that “works very hard to create an illusion of ease” and spontaneity, but also illuminates centuries of complex American culture.

Phillips’ words insists on the strangeness of difference—the classics haunt his poems, but so do roosters in Ohio, Led Zeppelin riffs in the basement and the Wu-Tang Clan.

Faderman crystalizes this trajectory in the words of activist Frank Kameny: ‘We started with nothing, and look what we have wrought!’

So I found myself going to this place with the smell of brand-new books, and I could take any book I wanted. It was amazing! I used to go there, and read and read and read. That was a transformative experience.

by Gary Stonum In electoral politics you must choose one candidate. In identity politics, it is often the same. As…

Edwidge Danticat began her remarks in Cleveland by drawing attention to another artist, the painter Jacob Lawrence, whose migration series…

Readers wondering what to pick up this spring can crack any of the six books just awarded the National Book…

The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards is sponsoring “Good Luck Soup” at this year’s Cleveland International Film Festival. The two screenings are…

Spread over the opening pages of Angela Flournoy’s “The Turner House” is a family tree, its branches enumerating the 61…