At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.

I first interviewed Toni Morrison about her work as a book editor in September ... Amistad Once I joined Morrison in her office, which was furnished tastefully with modest art, a large, stately desk, ...

I’m old enough to remember when novelists were big-time. When I was in college in the 1980s, new novels from Philip Roth, ...

News about Toni Morrison, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

I would tell a different story about the decline of literary fiction, and it is a story about social pressure and conformity.

Woolf knew why. The patriarchy, she wrote, depends upon man’s “feeling that great numbers of people, half the human race ...

Morrison explored art forms other than novels, most especially plays and opera librettos, the texts accompanying operatic music. She wrote her first play, Dreaming Emmett, in the mid-1980s.

BlackStar presents its 14th annual celebration of indie film from the global majority, with screenings, panels, parties, and much more.

Stephanie Elizondo Griest traveled to 12 countries over the course of a decade in a global search for 'art monks.' ...