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by Dr. Anand Bhat In 2007, when I asked my driver in Caracas if evangelical Christianity had been making its…

Twitter was made for pithy public intellectuals like Roxane Gay. Nearly 100,000 people follow the author and professor for her…

Kenneth Warren, a University of Chicago literature professor, asked a gathering of students and faculty in Cleveland this fall to…

Violence permeates nearly every page of “The Education of Kevin Powell.” Neighborhood boys, relatives, authority figures and even the author…

One of my favorite Maya Angelou quotes—one I love so much that I gave all my friends an illustrated copy…

by Gail Arnoff, adjunct professor, John Carroll University  The first time I read The Color of Water, I was deep…

Journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates is very clear on his role: Dig for the truth and get out of the way. “If…

Cultural critic Daniel Mendelsohn paused in Cleveland this October before his written remarks to take in the stunning, restored Temple-Tifereth…

Tom Pantic, a junior at Hiram College in Ohio, wanted to know how poet Eugene Gloria felt about being put…

“A Ballerina’s Tale” is a delightfully intimate portrait of Misty Copeland—full of close-ups, uncomfortable silence, and peeks behind the curtain…

This past September, Jericho Brown, Marlon James, Marilyn Chin and Richard S. Dunn accepted their 2015 Anisfield-Wolf awards at a…

As I approached the ballroom of the Cleveland Convention Center to reach the Open Doors Academy luncheon, I heard a…

Richard S. Dunn spent 40 years researching and writing “A Tale of Two Plantations,” a scrupulous, revelatory archival investigation of…

As Marilyn Chin began her acceptance speech for this year’s award for poetry, she looked out in the audience upon…

It was a brief passage in “Sula,” Toni Morrison‘s 1973 novel, that changed Marlon James‘ entire life: in it, Sula…

“My idols sat around and read my book, y’all,” Jericho Brown remarked from the podium at the 2015 Anisfield-Wolf Book…