In her new book, award-winning novelist Namwali Serpell takes on Toni Morrison, one of the towering figures in American ...
The Beloved author’s refusal to conform made her a hero to many – and the only black female writer to have won a Nobel prize in literature ...
In The Bluest Eye, Morrison struggled to unite the there and not-there in the same figure: Claudia had occupied the positive pole, as it were, and Pecola, the negative. Four novels later, in Beloved, ...
This episode features a 1983 interview between SCETV’s Beryl Dakers and author Toni Morrison. This episode features a 1983 interview between SCETV’s Beryl Dakers and Pulitzer Prize winner, Toni ...
Books & the Arts / Toni Morrison’s debut novel might be her most misunderstood. Namwali Serpell This essay is adapted from On Morrison (Hogarth). Banned as it’s been, everybody knows what The Bluest ...