Toni Morrison

“It Is Not a Given”: Marcie Bianco Lays Out the Steps to Reclaiming Freedom for Feminism

On Self-Creation, Mutual Relationships, and the Importance of Rest

 
By Marcie Bianco  November 9, 2023
Palestine

A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation

By Fady Joudah  November 1, 2023
Excerpt

Why Toni Morrison Left Publishing

By Dan Sinykin  October 24, 2023
Nature

How America’s Natural Beauty Called Generations of Women to Action

By Tiya Miles  September 21, 2023
Lit Hub Questionnaire

Jamel Brinkley Spends His Time Rereading Incredible Prose

By Literary Hub  August 2, 2023
Talk Easy

Roxane Gay on How She Arrived at Herself

By Talk Easy  July 25, 2023
In Memoriam

Jonathan Galassi Remembers His Friend, the Great Robert Gottlieb

By Jonathan Galassi  July 25, 2023
Inspiration

Literary Concertos: A Reading List of Novels Inspired by Other Art Forms

By Julia Fine  June 13, 2023
The Hub

These are the 13 books people tried to ban the most in 2022.

By Emily Temple  April 24, 2023
Nobel Laureates

A Brief History of All the Women Who Have Won the Nobel Prize

By Jessi Haley  March 8, 2023
The Hub

Let famous authors do the reading for you in the Toni Morrison virtual marathon.

By Janet Manley  February 22, 2023
In Conversation

Bedtime Stories From Toni Morrison: Priscilla Gilman on Her Singular Literary Upbringing

By Lauren LeBlanc  February 6, 2023
American Icons

Toni Morrison on Craft, Inspiration, and the Time She Met Obama

By Sarah Ladipo Manyika  February 2, 2023
Religion

Toni Morrison’s Powerful Vision of a Revival as a Ceremony for Healing Black Bodies

By Caleb Smith  February 1, 2023
Thresholds

Hafizah Geter: Why Writing Isn’t Solitary

By Thresholds   February 1, 2023
Classic Literature

Henry Louis Gates Jr. on What Makes a “Classic” African American Text

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  January 31, 2023
The Craft of Writing

Toni Morrison on Breathing Life into Clichés

By Toni Morrison  January 13, 2023
Best of 2022

The Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 31

By Literary Hub  December 20, 2022
Thresholds

Saeed Jones on Structuring Alive at the End of the World in the Shape of Grief

By Thresholds   November 17, 2022
The Writing Life

The Best American Novelist to Disappear (And Come Back) Twice

By Helene Atwan  November 4, 2022
The Hub

Toni Morrison will finally be on a U.S. stamp in 2023.

By Emily Temple  October 26, 2022
Syllabi

Back to School for Everyone: The Literature of Obsession with Julia May Jonas

By Julia May Jonas  September 6, 2022
Historical Fiction

On the Historical Fiction That Lives in the Space Between History and Myth

By Phong Nguyen  September 1, 2022
Behind the Mic

Miss Chloe by A.J. Verdelle, Read by Bahni Turpin

By Behind the Mic   June 17, 2022
Writing Advice

A Brutal—and True—Piece of Writing Advice from Toni Morrison

By A. J. Verdelle  May 12, 2022
The Annotated Nightstand

The Annotated Nightstand: Melissa Chadburn on the Books She’s Reading Now and Next

By Diana Arterian  April 12, 2022
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