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

There’s a new niche shop coming to Evanston, with the distinction of being the first Black woman-owned bookstore in the ...

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

This is a book I come back to again and again, learning more about the characters and the brilliance of Toni Morrison’s writing. Based on the true story of Margaret Garner, an enslaved woman who ...

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

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, ...

In this reprint of "Peril" and "Racism and Fascism," Toni Morrison warns of the creative depths of fascism's reach.

Morrison’s masterly approach to prominently featuring and writing lovingly about food—tapping into the sense of taste, so often underutilized in literary fiction—was like a mirror.

Morrison’s precision and delight in writing about food was so apparent that, 51 years ago, The New York Times enlisted her to write a feature about a summer cookout.