| 单词 | Toni Morrison |
| 例句 | In her novel Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison captures this distant relationship between the black working class and the Mutual. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The most recent thing was a response paper to Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z But Toni Morrison’s is not an adjective, like red or beautiful; it’s a noun phrase in genitive case. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He read late into the night, often long after I’d fallen asleep, plowing through history and biographies and Toni Morrison, too. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Toni Morrison’s isn’t functioning as a modifier, which shades the meaning of genius, but as a determiner, which pins down its referent, in the same way that an article like the or this would do. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Maybe go live someplace where there are real sunflowers and the kind of real sunshine that Toni Morrison talks about. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z A high school teacher complained that it did, because the possessive phrase Toni Morrison’s cannot serve as the antecedent of the pronoun her. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Once she read me something Toni Morrison had written. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z The other rationale is that Toni Morrison’s is an adjective, and pronouns must refer back to nouns. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I wanted to read more Toni Morrison books and learn more about African-American history. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z She liked to read this writer named Toni Morrison. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z You think Toni Morrison’s ever been to Newark? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z I think about how successful someone like Toni Morrison was and how I never knew Toni Morrison could exist until I was grown. Jason Reynolds on wanting writer role models: “Judy Bloom never came and hollered at us" 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z My first encounter with Toni Morrison was during my freshman year of college, at Harvard, when I talked my way into an advanced seminar on her work. Going to the Movies with Toni Morrison 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z He taught at several other institutions over the decades, including Sarah Lawrence and Columbia; in 1982 he joined the faculty at Princeton University, where his colleagues included Toni Morrison and Joyce Carol Oates. Russell Banks, Novelist Steeped in the Working Class, Dies at 82 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z The prestige novels, the homework for literate adults, included Don DeLillo’s “White Noise,” Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” William Kennedy’s “Ironweed” and John Updike’s “Rabbit is Rich.” Among the Literary Lions, at Full Roar, in the 1980s 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z It’s a term I invented, while watching the late, great Toni Morrison masterfully take down her critics: “The Morrisonian Moment.” Toni Morrison’s Only Short Story Addresses Race by Avoiding Race 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Toni Morrison, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1993, and Philip Roth, surely the greatest living writer not to have won the Nobel, might head most lists. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z Toni Morrison, the author and Nobel Prize winner, turned 88 on Feb. 18. Toni Morrison: First Lady of Letters 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Another Nobel laureate and Princeton faculty member, Toni Morrison, said in a statement that giving him the prize was a "brilliant choice." Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T19:38:00Z In general, if I’m struggling with, say, a piece of science writing, I’m just as likely to reread Toni Morrison’s “Song of Solomon” as David Quammen’s “The Song of the Dodo.” Kathryn Schulz Doesn’t Count Any Reading Pleasures as Guilty 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Morgan also invoked Toni Morrison in response to the threats that AI could pose to the creative writer. Are we witnessing the death of the writer? Facing the AI crossroads in class and on the page 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z “Toni Morrison’s prose brings us that kind of moral and emotional intensity that few writers ever attempt.” Remembering Toni Morrison: Nobel Prize-winning author dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z In many ways, Toni Morrison's been just such an inspiration to me as someone whose writing I've always aspired to be as good as. On Toni Morrison, motherhood and "Pose": A conversation with Steven Canals 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z “Toni Morrison was the first African-American woman to win a Nobel Prize. May she rest in power. #RememberHerName” — Billie Jean King, via Twitter. Barack Obama, Beyonce, others react to Toni Morrison’s death 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z They regularly read from “The Black Book,” Toni Morrison’s compilation of events both painful and glorious in the African-American experience. Anika Noni Rose Was Waiting for This Moment 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z The characters in Freedom are, on the whole, a well-educated bunch, whose reading matter includes Hemingway, Toni Morrison, Thomas Bernhardt, Thomas Pynchon's V and Ian McEwan's Atonement. Does Freedom reign? 2010-09-17T23:05:00Z Lorde, like James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, is vulnerable to selective quotation. A Timely Collection of Vital Writing by Audre Lorde 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison, in “Beloved,” wrote about “sweet, crazy conversations full of half-sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.” Perspective | Conversation over video is maddening. So take a lesson from literature’s great dialogue writers. 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z That life is painful, but it’s also fertile ground for a disturbing, haunting memoir that comprises 33 letters to biological family, chosen family, friends and other storytellers, including Toni Morrison. Review | Akwaeke Emezi’s memoir is a healing ritual for the displaced 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z And, for a change of pace, take a few minutes to watch Toni Morrison’s appearance on “The Colbert Report.” Weekend Reading: The Real Humbert Humbert, Origins of “The Sexiest Man Alive,” and More 2014-11-22T05:00:00Z Holding all those touched by Toni Morrison in my heart today.” Barack Obama, Beyonce, others react to Toni Morrison’s death 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The hint is that he lives — in which case Toni Morrison has her next novel ready and waiting: Milkman’s real manhood, the means he invents for transmitting or squandering the legacy he has discovered. Review: ‘Song of Solomon,’ by Toni Morrison 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z This is all to say that Toni Morrison didn’t teach me how to read. Toni Morrison Taught Me How to Think 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison’s lecture will be reprinted in “Goodness and the Literary Imagination,” edited by Davíd Carrasco, Stephanie Paulsell and Mara Willard, to be published by the University of Virginia Press in October. Toni Morrison: ‘Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z “We wandering children heard Toni Morrison’s voice, and she saved us,” she said. ‘She Saved Us’: Mourners Pay Tribute to Toni Morrison 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z She took inspiration from Toni Morrison, who once described motherhood as “the most liberating thing that ever happened to me.” Excellence Runs in the Family. Her Novel’s Heroine Wants Something Else. 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z Not everyone was thrilled with the selection of Dylan, the first American to win the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993. Another prize for Bob Dylan — but this one is sweetest for fans and fellow songwriters 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The past casts long shadows over the lives of Toni Morrison’s people, making them equate love with leaving and loss. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Larry Brown, Toni Morrison and Philip Roth — because there’s a significant chance that a spirited debate might break out, and I love drama above all things. Attica Locke, Novelist and TV Writer, Has Some Suggestions for Hollywood 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Mrs. Obama says Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon" is her favorite book, and "I'm interested in hearing how she interprets it." Obama a fan of "Boardwalk Empire," "Homeland" 2011-12-14T19:05:09Z Wright, who comes trailing blurbs from the likes of Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates and Thomas Pynchon, is the author of five frenetic novels that romp through fields of violence and madness. Review | Finally, a novel that captures the inanity of the Trump era. It isn’t pretty. 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z Toni Morrison read the New York Times with pencil in hand. Toni Morrison on Her Last Novel and the Voices of Her Characters 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z On Monday, the American Library Association reported more than 270 challenges to books in 2020, from Toni Morrison’s "The Bluest Eye" to Harper Lee’s "To Kill a Mockingbird," compared to 377 the year before. Trend of books being banned spiked during pandemic 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z A lifetime achievement award will be presented to the novelist Toni Morrison. Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards Are Announced 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z I remembered then that Toni Morrison was from Ohio and thought ‘black people have been happy here for quite some time.’ Forget New York. For writer Saeed Jones, Columbus, Ohio, is the place to be a literary star. 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison for giving “life to an essential aspect of American reality.” The Nobel Prize in Literature Takes This Year Off. Our Critics Don’t. 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison does not belong to black America. Toni Morrison: First Lady of Letters 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z “A Mercy” by Toni Morrison tells a haunting story of early slavery in New York state. Discover what drew artists, writers and presidents to New York’s Hudson Valley 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison died on Monday night of complications from pneumonia, a representative from her publisher Alfred A. Knopf confirmed. Remembering Toni Morrison: Nobel Prize-winning author dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z In her introduction, Smith likens “Recitatif” to a puzzle or a game, while warning that “Toni Morrison does not play.” Rare Toni Morrison short story to be published as a book 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Many of its books have been removed from Escambia school libraries or otherwise restricted, including “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison, “Push” by Sapphire and “The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini. Florida School District Is Sued Over Book Restrictions 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z He's the first American winner of the Nobel literature prize since Toni Morrison in 1993. Dylan's music increases by 500 percent following Nobel win 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Based in Evanston, Ill., and frequently produced in regional theaters, Diamond, who is 51, is also known for the campus drama “Smart People” and her adaptation of Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye.” Four Black Artists on How Racism Corrodes the Theater World 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z My first, panicked thought when I encountered “by Toni Morrison” on the first page was that this had been a mistake. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The interview with Toni Morrison will be the first in the series on on Friday 5, Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 October. Toni Morrison on America and race 2012-10-06T03:08:43Z Dylan is the first American to win since Toni Morrison, in 1993, and the first musician of any nationality to win the prize. Bob Dylan in The New Yorker 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z We also see clips of Lebowitz being interviewed by Toni Morrison, and speaking to a college crowd. Scorsese films Lebowitz: "Public Speaking" 2010-12-01T02:16:00Z It also contains suggestions for multimedia resources, including films such as "Beloved" and "Their Eyes Were Watching God," based on critically acclaimed books by Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston, respectively. What to read to understand Charleston attack: A crowdsourced syllabus 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison allowed me to exist in my own mind as a possibility. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Foster was his student when she attended Yale University in the 1980s and he helped advise her on her senior thesis about Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. Nobelist Wole Soyinka to honor Henry Louis Gates at PEN gala 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison was a giant of her times and ours. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z But “In West Mills” is largely free from the “white gaze” Toni Morrison also bypasses. The Legacy of Slavery in Two Novels of the American South 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Obama started with an invitation to read works by the Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, who died last week at the age of 88. Obama Shares His Summer Reading List 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z This collection focuses on 25 public figures, including Einstein, Mozart and Toni Morrison, and zeros in on what they were doing with their lives during their mid-20s. Newly Published, From Sea Stories to Trauma’s Impact 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z We sit and talk about William Faulkner and Toni Morrison and Harry Crews, until it becomes plain that Cosby needs to get back to work. S.A. Cosby, a Writer of Violent Noirs, Claims the Rural South as His Own 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z The eminent novelist Toni Morrison, who died this week at 88, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her novel “Beloved.” What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ and ‘Wu Assassins’ 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z “Toni Morrison passed away peacefully last night surrounded by family and friends,” Morrison’s family said in a statement through the publisher. Nobel laureate Toni Morrison dead at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Gurnah, 72, is the first Black writer to receive the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993, and some observers saw his selection as a long overdue corrective after years of European and American Nobel laureates. Abdulrazak Gurnah Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Fran Ross’s first and only novel, “Oreo,” was published in 1974, four years after Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” and two years before Alex Haley’s “Roots.” Review: ‘Oreo,’ a Sandwich-Cookie of a Feminist Comic Novel 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z And then the conversation began in earnest, but not before I had another shock, this one of realization: I had hurt Toni Morrison. Toni Morrison’s Truth 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z The selections will go on view in the exhibition “Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory,” opening Feb. 22 in the Milberg Gallery at Firestone Library. Illuminating Toni Morrison’s Manuscripts at Princeton 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z As the first member of his family to attend university, Mr. Louis became drawn to writers like Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and his compatriot Didier Eribon. For the French Author Édouard Louis, His Books Are His Weapon 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993 Not surprisingly for a writer, it is the language used to talk about the president which concerns her. Toni Morrison on America and race 2012-10-06T03:08:43Z That's $2,000 more than the school is paying Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning author Toni Morrison to speak at graduation on May 15. Rutgers pays Snooki more than Nobel winner for talk 2011-04-01T17:35:12Z Toni Morrison has said, “I have spent my entire writing life trying to make sure that the white gaze was not the dominant one in any of my books.” ‘Fairview’: Watching a Play in Black and White 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z For example, Toni Morrison was read by everybody, but she specifically wrote to and for black people. Rap legend Rakim opens up about finding his unique, intellectual sound and transforming hip-hop 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison’s novel “Beloved,” the story of a formerly enslaved woman’s confrontation with the infant she killed, moved a generation to reckon with slavery’s intimate violence and its enduring legacy. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Toni Morrison, to tell haunting stories in hushed tones over a long and delicious meal. Raina Telgemeier Can’t Wait to Break Bread With Her Friends Again 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Are we still waiting around for Toni Morrison’s rather wordy and overelaborate sentences to let themselves be “more clearly interpreted?” Perspective | In postponing Guston exhibition, the National Gallery and three other museums have made a terrible mistake 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z Though she is a prose writer, I would include Toni Morrison in this list. Natasha Trethewey: By the Book 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z It can be over years and decades, or across land and sea, as it is in “Song of Solomon,” by Toni Morrison, or “My Name Is Red,” by Orhan Pamuk. Marlon James: By the Book 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Across Central Park, a more cerebral and, in some cases, tenured brand of celebrity — Toni Morrison, Martin Amis, Calvin Trillin — were walking the red carpet at the annual PEN American Center Literary Gala. Scene City: PEN American Center Literary Gala Celebrates Writers 2014-05-07T23:10:30Z Over the decades, Rehm has interviewed many of the nation’s leading political figures, including Presidents Carter, Clinton and Obama, and such cultural luminaries as Toni Morrison and Fred Rogers of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” NPR talk-show legend Diane Rehm will retire from broadcasting next year 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Toni Morrison, asked about the changes while at a literature festival, said that the British “will regret it.” Goodbye, Steinbeck; All Hail, Shelley 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Also, not long after Toni Morrison died, I realized that I’d never read “Sula”; not that it’s news to anyone, but it’s stunning. How Bob Dylan Turned David Remnick on to Serious Reading 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z One of my favorite reads in the book is the essay in which the author is asked the question, "What does Toni Morrison's house smell like?" Bryant Terry says he just wrote his last cookbook—but this top chef hasn't finished leaving his mark 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z I’ve been going through my mom’s stuff, and I found all of her old James Baldwin and Toni Morrison books. How ‘Catcher in the Rye’ Influenced Lenny Kravitz’s Memoir 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z When Toni Morrison encountered Jones’s work in the 1970s, she said, “No novel about any Black woman could ever be the same after this.” 19 New Books Coming in September 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z “Ghosts in the House,” by Hilton Als How Toni Morrison fostered a generation of writers. The Top Twenty-Five Most-Read Archive Stories of 2019 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Yet it’s tonic to read Toni Morrison, in her introduction to these collected poems, slap down this critique of Clifton’s work. Books of The Times: ‘The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010’ 2012-10-11T16:46:12Z Last month while accepting a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Critics Circle, Toni Morrison noted that back in 1970 when she published her debut novel, “The Bluest Eye,” “the reception was slight, indifferent.” Toni Morrison’s familiar, flawed ‘God Help the Child’ 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z I learned of Toni Morrison’s death at sunrise, and of Paule Marshall’s at sunset. The Ancestral Blessings of Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison died on Monday evening, at the age of eighty-eight. Toni Morrison in The New Yorker 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z “If you surrender to the air, you can ride it,” announces the title card opening the film, adapting a Toni Morrison quote. Beyoncé's "Homecoming" transforms the concert film into an artistic, historic moment 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z For nearly half a century, we have been looking to Toni Morrison for guidance — to help us think, through literature, as we find our way through the world. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z It makes me think of Toni Morrison’s famous interrogation of Ralph Ellison: “Invisible to whom?” Tayari Jones: By the Book 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z To be haunted by the ghosts of the past, to live with and among them, is a world made possible by the mind and the language of Toni Morrison. Analysis | Toni Morrison has kept the public at arm’s length. Now she’s letting people in on her terms. 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison routinely took these risks; she had fun with such mischief. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Beloved, released in 1998, was an adaptation of Toni Morrison’s seminal novel about slavery. Silence of the Lambs director Jonathan Demme dies aged 73 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z I recall Toni Morrison's iconic 1993 interview with PBS's Charlie Rose, when she was asked her views on the problem with whiteness and the effects of racism on white identity: How racism found my son on Fortnite 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z "American Dirt" also seemed a natural choice for a book club that has, throughout its 24-year run, picked diverse, socially conscious works from the likes of Toni Morrison, Elie Wiesel, and Isabel Allende. Has Oprah lost her touch? 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z Never again, I vowed, would a Black elder be bewildered by my lack of exposure to Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, their predecessors or their contemporaries. Thank you to that white man down in Florida: Lessons learned from reading a banned book 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z An earlier version of this review misspelled the name of Toni Morrison’s hometown. In This Genre-Bending Novel, You Better Believe the Monsters Are Real 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z Was it you who told me how Toni Morrison prepared a lecture for which she annotated every single place where Faulkner, in “Absalom, Absalom,” chose not to address race? Adrian Nicole LeBlanc and Gary Gulman on Comedy and Depression 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z A quote from Toni Morrison, some grainy analog establishing shots of the Coachella grounds, and then: it is time. Crying! Pole-Dancing! Heroin! The best movie moments of 2019 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Toni Morrison, the Nobel Prize-winning writer, editor, and educator, is as formidable as any of the steely characters in her books. Toni Morrison doc filmmaker on her banned books: "People are afraid ... of powerful black women" 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z One of the highlights was the night the American Embassy gave a party for Toni Morrison after she won a prize, just as “Song of Solomon” was coming out. A Painter and Social Activist With an ‘Unruly Nature’ 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z His 9-year-old son, Julius, practices “Black and Blue” on the piano and does homework as Johnson reads Toni Morrison’s “Song of Solomon.” In Rashid Johnson’s Mosaics, Broken Lives Pieced Together 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z In an interview with The Telegraph’s Gaby Wood, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison revealed when she would concede that racism was truly over — that is, when the criminal justice system eliminated glaring racial disparities. Toni Morrison takes on American racism: “I want to see a white man convicted for raping a black woman” 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Her biography recalls that of the late, legendary Toni Morrison, who published her debut novel well into her 30s. Review | ‘Love After Love’ reminds readers why we go to books in search of answers to life’s great questions 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z The Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, in a New Yorker essay called “Mourning for Whiteness” that was written after Mr. Trump’s election, explored long-running assumptions that even Americans believe that white is better. What Is the Color of Beauty? 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z Speaking at the Hay Festival, Toni Morrison said Maya Angelou was "generous to a fault" Maya Angelou was a 'real original' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z In the writing classes Mr. Steinberg also teaches in prison, he introduces inmates to other authors: Toni Morrison, Philip Larkin, Amiri Baraka. Books of The Times: True Tales of a Prison Librarian 2010-10-19T16:13:00Z Why did the hoaxer pick Pynchon – instead of say, Cormac McCarthy or Toni Morrison, both of whom are older than the 78-year-old Long Island native? Why I believed that dumb Pynchon death hoax: The elusive novelist is tailor-made to be the butt of bizarre rumors 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z As Toni Morrison said, “The one thing you say about a myth is that there’s some truth in there, no matter how bizarre they may seem.” Revisiting the Legend of Flying Africans 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Reading a Toni Morrison novel was group therapy. Toni Morrison Taught Me How to Think 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Some feel American novelists like Jonathan Franzen and Toni Morrison will come to dominate the prize, robbing British authors of the sales and publicity that come with the honour. Global expansion for Booker Prize 2013-09-18T14:02:17Z The Toni Morrison Society, devoted to the study of her life and work, was founded in 1993. Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Revisiting an earlier era of unrest, this book gathers texts from Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison and more on Black art. New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From Queer Love to the Soul of a Nation 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z It was published the same year as Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” and a year after Maya Angelou’s “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.” It’s Not Too Late to Discover Louise Meriwether 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z Forster, Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison have all been put through the dramatic wringer recently, many of them emerging as wet rags. Onstage, the Pen Is Usually Duller Than the Sword 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z In just three minutes and 30 seconds, a child born under George W Bush’s presidency managed to galvanise a global movement, and quote Toni Morrison to boot. The 11-year-old who galvanised a global movement at the March for Our Lives 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z The process allowed colors from earlier layers to emerge, evoking the way past traumas continually return, like the ghost child in Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” as we stagger, unseeing, into the future. Perspective | Mark Bradford’s art sees all the broken places that led to this moment of protest 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Beloved,” dies at 88. The biggest book news of the year 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z It’s a project that owes a debt to Toni Morrison’s 1992 book “Playing in the Dark.” Reading the Hidden Racial Life of American Fiction 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The guy said, “Do you know who Toni Morrison is?” ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z News of Toni Morrison’s death at 88 was top of mind for many— certainly for both interviewer and subject. On Toni Morrison, motherhood and "Pose": A conversation with Steven Canals 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z That until I was fortunate enough to discover Toni Morrison, I thought I was ugly. Halima Aden – why a model wearing a hijab on the cover of Vogue matters 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z She not only has written children's stories, but has been the subject of one, Douglas Century's "Toni Morrison." At home with Toni Morrison 2012-05-07T14:13:08Z Or would you live it like Toni Morrison? Perspective | Obituaries are the only redemptive news anymore 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z This spring, I ended the African American literature course I teach with Toni Morrison's "Beloved." On being Black in Kentucky and Charles Booker's historic run for Senate 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Europeans have won an overwhelming number of the literature prizes in the last decade; the last American writer to win a Nobel was Toni Morrison in 1993. Swedish Poet Wins Nobel Prize for Literature 2011-10-06T11:58:05Z On opening night in Harlem, novelist Toni Morrison sat front row. Stew & Heidi take on James Baldwin in 'Notes of a Native Song' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z "I just don't understand why the literature is still being categorised, why Toni Morrison and James Baldwin are in a certain section, instead of just in the 'literature' section," she said. Novelist Sapphire complains of 'very real' racism in the arts 2011-08-23T14:37:08Z Deep in the center of Toni Morrison's 11th novel, "God Help the Child," there's a section that resonates with the power of the author's finest work. The magic is missing in Toni Morrison's 'God Help the Child' 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z In “The Bluest Eye,” Toni Morrison encapsulates that internalization in the most profound, poetic and incredible way. Sterling K. Brown Is on His Best Behavior, Just in Case 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison writes about psychological violence with an engineer's precision and a poet's expansiveness. "Home:" Toni Morrison's novel of a Southern homecoming 2012-06-20T21:42:07Z "I can mimic Toni Morrison, but I can't sustain that mimicry for a whole novel nor provide the million nuanced understandings that came from a lifetime of living from her particular perspective." Are we witnessing the death of the writer? Facing the AI crossroads in class and on the page 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z As Toni Morrison explained in her book "Playing in the Dark," whiteness is terror for nonwhites. Donald Trump voter family values: Trump’s supporters are teaching their kids to embrace bigotry 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z As we mourn the loss of this giant of American literature, we can agree that Toni Morrison, too, ruled. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z So many writers, so many writers that are women, so many writers that are black know this to be true—because of Toni Morrison, we are. Toni Morrison, Remembered By Writers 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z In Toni Morrison’s “Song of Solomon,” the character Pilate Dead is missing a navel, making her an object of both suspicion and awe. In ‘Aftershocks,’ a Search for Home in a Life Around the World 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z The ever-insightful late Toni Morrison once famously said: “If there’s a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” Books about ‘kick-ass’ women might be a pain in one – but we need to hear these wondrous stories 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z The title novella manages to combine George Orwell’s bureaucratic chill from “1984” with Toni Morrison’s elegant judgments from “Beloved.” 10 books to read in November 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z It brings to mind what Toni Morrison says in the dedication to “Sula” about the “sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.” Tayari Jones: By the Book 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z I first read Toni Morrison as a college student—first “Sula,” then “The Bluest Eye,” then “Song of Solomon.” Toni Morrison, Remembered By Writers 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z The idea for the “List” series that would bring him more notoriety originated more than 10 years ago, when Greenfield-Sanders was talking with Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. 'Show the struggle, but also the great accomplishment,' says photographer behind minority photo series 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z It’s like how Toni Morrison talks about “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison. Viola Davis and Company on ‘Ma Rainey’ and Chadwick Boseman’s Last Bow 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z A Toni Morrison Society organizes conferences about her work and sponsors a Toni Morrison Book Prize. At home with Toni Morrison 2012-05-07T14:13:08Z On Monday, Toni Morrison died in New York, at the age of eighty-eight. Toni Morrison, Remembered By Writers 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z The collection also includes photos of political leaders and cultural icons like Jesse Jackson, Toni Morrison and Thelonious Monk. Library of Congress Acquires Harlem Photographer’s Collection 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z Toni Morrison was presented with a lifetime achievement award and received a standing ovation reported the Guardian. Marilynne Robinson wins fiction prize 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z The walls of the N.M.A.A.H.C. are covered with quotes from the greats: Martin Luther King, Jr., Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, and more. The Smithsonian’s Black-History Museum Will Always Be a Failure and a Success 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z Gov. Glenn Youngkin of Virginia, a Republican, ran a campaign ad featuring a mother who did not want Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” to be a part of her son’s high school curriculum. Book Banning Efforts Surged in 2021. These Titles Were the Most Targeted. 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z It's the core of "Huck and Jim," the breathtaking new work based on Mark Twain's "amazing, troubling book," as novelist Toni Morrison once described "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Charles Ray's sculptures cast a forceful modern eye on antiquity 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z “The main function of white supremacy,” he noted later, paraphrasing Toni Morrison, “is to distract you from your work.” Is America Ready for the Mind of Terence Nance? 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison invited my mother and me to teach a Princeton Atelier music course in 1997, and we had to teach with a text, so my mom chose “Parable of the Sower.” Apocalypse Nowish: Singing the Prophetic Warnings of Octavia Butler 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison dancing at a disco party in New York. Toni Morrison Dancing: Photos of the Author at Work and Play 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z OBERLIN, Ohio — Novelist Toni Morrison tells fans in Ohio she canceled plans to write a memoir because "there's a point at which your life is not interesting." Toni Morrison tells Ohioans she won't write memoir 2012-03-15T12:30:09Z Otherwise, it’s a tossup between the TMs: Thomas Mann and Toni Morrison. The Icelandic Saga That Keeps Rita Dove Coming Back for More 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Lawmakers on the left mobilized to have "Huckleberry Finn" removed from syllabi for racial insensitivity; Virginia's GOP endeavored to banish Toni Morrison's "Beloved." From Philip Roth to Dave Chappelle, how an artist's "meta move" fuels an endless cancel culture war 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z The poet Sonia Sanchez once called Toni Morrison — who discovered Jones’s talent and became her editor in the 1970s — “a blessed one.” After 22 Years, Gayl Jones Returns 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z He’d thought himself capable of outwitting Toni Morrison, an African American woman who’d won the Nobel Prize in Literature, in a debate about Blackness and its profound creative relevance. Toni Morrison’s Only Short Story Addresses Race by Avoiding Race 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Reynolds wanted to know about the value of a Langston Hughes letter, an advanced reader copy of Claude Brown’s “Manchild in the Promised Land” and a first edition signed copy of Toni Morrison’s “Beloved.” ‘Antique Roadshow’ flips the script with celebrity editions 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison has always written for the ear, with a loving attention to the textures and sounds of words. Toni Morrison’s ‘God Help the Child’ 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z The clearest influence is Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” — the child returning from the dead, bitter and wronged and full of questions. Faulkner and Other Ghosts Sing Through Jesmyn Ward’s New Novel 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z I was going to say Toni Morrison, but obviously she just died. Elton John’s Bookshelves Are Meticulous. Just Ask Him. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z It sounds like the opening of Toni Morrison’s “Song of Solomon,” except that this really happened. Read Your Way Through Kingston, Jamaica 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Princeton University is the new home of various writings and manuscripts from Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison, the school announced Friday. Toni Morrison's Papers to Be Housed at Princeton 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, 81, had a novel out in the spring and has said she's working on a new one. Roth retires but Wolfe, Wouk among authors past 80 2012-11-20T12:59:09Z Two older works that have been on the list before also appear: Sherman Alexie’s autobiographical novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s debut novel “The Bluest Eye.” Library study finds ‘challenged’ books soared in 2021 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z What I cherish most about Toni Morrison’s work is the way that she used the English language: to its fullest, across its entire range, from the poetic to the profane. Toni Morrison, Remembered By Writers 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Princeton University will be the permanent home to the papers of Toni Morrison, one of America’s most celebrated living authors. Toni Morrison Papers Will Go To Princeton 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison’s death may come as a shock because her words seem so evergreen, even eternal, as they explore our American dilemmas and delights. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z This is a thought-provoking book, punctuated with insights by thinkers from Edward Said to Toni Morrison to Ngugi wa Thiong’o, and a written exchange with Alice Walker. New & Noteworthy Visual Books, From Queer Love to the Soul of a Nation 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z In the essay “The Site of Memory,” Toni Morrison described the crafting of her fictional worlds as a quest to access the interior lives of her ancestors. Jocelyn Nicole Johnson Makes Virginia’s Past Present in ‘My Monticello.’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z She loves Howard, the school that produced such giants as Thurgood Marshall and Toni Morrison, and legions of others who helped shape the 20th century. Is this Howard University’s tipping point? 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison, a friend of Lebowitz's, puts it a little differently. "Public Speaking": Scorsese's Fran Lebowitz doc delights 2010-11-22T16:01:00Z Toni Morrison spoke at Harvard Divinity School on the subject of altruism in 2012. Toni Morrison: ‘Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination’ 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Once upon a time in America, Toni Morrison wrote in “Beloved,” her masterpiece, the presence of a black face in a newspaper would induce something close to horror in certain readers. Toni Morrison, a Writer of Many Gifts Who Bent Language to Her Will 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Later, in high school, I loved “My Ántonia,” by Willa Cather, and “Beloved,” by Toni Morrison. Ellie Kemper: By the Book 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Some of his best fight sentences sound as if Joe Rogan had fallen into a trance and assumed the diction and rhythms of Toni Morrison. In This Satire, Televised Blood Baths Offer Prisoners a Path to Freedom 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison's fiction has reworked stories from the classical tradition, including Euripedes' "Medea" and Ovid's "Metamorphoses." In "Rumors," Lizzo and Cardi B pull from the ancient Greeks, putting a new twist on an old tradition 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z In Toni Morrison’s classic novel “Beloved,” a house is haunted by the ghost of a child murdered by her mother to save her from the horrors of slavery. Stream These Five International Films Now 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Panel discussions will tackle a range of topics including President Trump, Brexit and the work of the writer Toni Morrison, who died last month. New Yorker Festival Will Host Two Democratic Candidates and Nancy Pelosi 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z I read “Song of Solomon,” by Toni Morrison, in an English class my senior year of high school, and it remains my favorite book to this day. What books inspired Richard Russo, Harlan Coben, Lauren Groff and others 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison’s masterpiece, “Beloved,” seared into our imagination the grotesque distortions of antebellum life. ‘Homegoing,’ by Yaa Gyasi: A bold tale of slavery for a new ‘Roots’ generation 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Two of the most gorgeous examples that come to mind for me are Toni Morrison’s “Jazz” and Rita Dove’s “Thomas and Beulah,” both of which elevate the ordinary to the sublime. Isabel Wilkerson Loves Books. That Doesn’t Mean She Treats Them Gently. 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z “The very serious function of racism . . . is distraction,” Toni Morrison once said. Darryl Pinckney’s Intimate Study of Black History 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z In “The Source of Self-Regard,” Toni Morrison demanded that we “know the difference between fever and the disease.” Review | In the story of a mass shooting, ‘Bloomland’ reveals the bloody tapestry of a beleaguered nation 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z “There’s no possibility of understanding from hearing these characters talk that they’re Black, and this is so essential to any Toni Morrison story,” she said. Who should translate Amanda Gorman’s work? That question is ricocheting around the translation industry. 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z Huck Finn was, and remains, “an amazing, troubling book,” as novelist Toni Morrison tells us; an “idol and target,” as critic Jonathan Arac writes. We get Huck Finn all wrong: Race, Mark Twain, children and myths of an American classic 2015-01-03T05:00:00Z Rankine's reliance on second-person point of view is grounded in Toni Morrison's assertion that the focus on the black body as a racialized subject must be shifted toward a critique of whiteness. Now that another black body has been laid to rest: George Floyd and the white gaze 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z The words of Margaret Garner, the enslaved woman who became the inspiration for Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” are the first words Coates uses to begin his historical narrative: “Never marry again in slavery.” My mother, the drug war and me: Reading Ta-Nehisi Coates and forgiving my own black family in the age of mass incarceration 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z I know Toni Morrison wasn’t writing for me, but she shaped me anyway, and I am so grateful for that. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z There’s an image that will stay with me forever: Toni Morrison, Bill T. Jones and Max Roach were all onstage together. Toni Morrison Dancing: Photos of the Author at Work and Play 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z With that enigmatic opening line of “Beloved,” Toni Morrison, who died Monday at the age of 88, placed her indelible stamp on American literature. Perspective | Toni Morrison not only remade American literature, she challenged us to resist the tenacity of racism 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z "Her creative impulse struck like bolts of lightning," said Beloved author Toni Morrison, who presented the 85-year-old with her lifetime achievement award. McBride wins US National Book Award 2013-11-21T16:41:07Z And while you’ll likely see a donkey fly before you see her stand before a bunch of Harvard undergraduates and sing on demand, the fact is Toni Morrison is very much like Ella Fitzgerald. Toni Morrison: First Lady of Letters 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z It is as if the Library of America were to reissue the complete novels of Toni Morrison absent “Beloved.” ‘The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick’ Gives Off a Bright Light 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison inspired generations of writers, artists and thinkers. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z After I saw “The Pieces I Am,” the Toni Morrison documentary, I was like, it would be worth my time to complete my education. Leslie Odom Jr. Raises a Glass to Billie Holiday and New York City 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z There were many great things about Toni Morrison: her humor, her humanness, her helping hand to so many writers — also, of course, her genius. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The last American writer to win a Nobel in literature was Toni Morrison in 1993. China’s Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2012-10-11T13:28:15Z Author Toni Morrison has paid tribute to her friend, the poet, author and activist Maya Angelou, saying she was a "real original" with "no duplicate". Maya Angelou was a 'real original' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Which, reminds me of Toni Morrison, where she was like, "I don't believe in arts for art's sake." "Survival Math" author Mitchell Jackson reckons with his "All-American" life 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z Low point: Despite promising reviews, her adaption of Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved flopped at the box office. Oprah Winfrey: from poverty to America's first black billionaire … to #Oprah2020? 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Author Toni Morrison and actress Mae West are featured in their own American Masters films. PBS highlighting women with summer of programming 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z “Evil has no father,” Toni Morrison asserts in “Grendel and His Mother,” her feminist essay on “Beowulf.” Moving From Elegy to Ecstasy, a Poet Pushes Against the Canon 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z An early galley was sent to Toni Morrison, who strongly endorsed the book, calling it “required reading” and likening Mr. Coates to James Baldwin. Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Making of a Public Intellectual 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z He compared his vocal style to Toni Morrison’s “Beloved”: “If you stick around, you’ll understand why I build up this description for five pages.” Serpentwithfeet‘s Sensual Ode to Drama 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The Toni Morrison Society that researches her works used the visit to announce the establishment of a residency at the school. Toni Morrison tells Ohioans she won't write memoir 2012-03-15T12:30:09Z Organized by two seasoned Whitney curators, David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards, the Biennial’s title, “Quiet as It’s Kept” — a colloquial phrase, sourced from Toni Morrison, indicating dark realities unspoken of — suggests the show’s keyed-down tone. A Whitney Biennial of Shadow and Light 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Oh yes, “Conversations With Toni Morrison,” edited by Danille Taylor-Guthrie — I would wear it around my neck like a talisman if it didn’t weigh so much. The Very Sweet Way Sarah Broom’s Mother Showed Her Love With Books 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z The work draws on many things: Black femmes, personal stories, popular music and the work of Toni Morrison, specifically her ideas around memory and re-memory, or recalling forgotten moments. Making Dance Out of Survival Skills and Reckoning With Grief 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z I’ve loved Toni Morrison ever since I read “Sula” and “The Bluest Eye” in college, but “Beloved” was a game changer for me. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Many people took issue with the headline: “Toni Morrison completely schools Stephen Colbert on the topic of racism.” 6 reasons we’re thankful for Stephen Colbert 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z In her Nobel Prize lecture, Toni Morrison recounted a folktale found across many cultures. A New Collection Upends Conventional Wisdom About Migration 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Historically, the case has always been the opposite with media catering to and conscious of a white audience, a term defined by Toni Morrison as the white gaze. "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse" is beyond subtitles — and the white gaze 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison calls Hillary “America’s third black president.” Hillary’s First 100 Days 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z Rowling was at the gala to accept the 2016 PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award, which has also been awarded to Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie and Toni Morrison. J.K. Rowling defends 'offensive and bigoted' Donald Trump's free speech 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z On Monday, the American Library Association reported more than 270 challenges to books in 2020, from Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” to Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” compared to 377 the year before. Books by Steinbeck, Alexie among most objected to in 2020 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z As the kids might say, Toni Morrison did that. Toni Morrison’s Only Short Story Addresses Race by Avoiding Race 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z And the words of Toni Morrison, from her novel “Beloved,” form the last inscription as visitors leave the hilltop memorial structure: “They do not love your neck unnoosed and straight.” Review | A powerful memorial in Montgomery remembers the victims of lynching 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z She began to read Toni Morrison and feminist writings “challenging gender norms before anyone even knew how to say that phrase.” Tate’s New Leader Has ‘Fresh Eyes and a Lot of Energy.’ Is That Enough? 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z “Not a house in the country ain’t packed to its rafters with some dead Negro’s grief,” Baby Suggs says in the opening pages of Toni Morrison’s “Beloved.” Review: Natashia Deón’s ‘Grace,’ a Tale of Slavery, Its Ghosts and Legacy 2016-06-19T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison once said: “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” Rebecca Carroll's Great American Novel: 'Sula' by Toni Morrison 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Among the books removed from circulation in one of the state’s school districts are Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” and Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Florida at Center of Debate as School Book Bans Surge Nationally 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z Who should join novelist Toni Morrison on the list of Great American Novelists? The Great American Novel tournament 2012-07-09T14:07:00Z “The brilliance of ‘Huckleberry Finn,’ ” Toni Morrison wrote, “is that it is the argument it raises.” ‘Huck Finn’s America’ by Andrew Levy 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Toni Morrison was probably the first American author I ever read, and that book was “The Bluest Eye.” ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison, one of the best writers to ever live, if not the best, was an editor as well. "We do have power": "Queens of Resistance" books profile the politicians who inspire us most – women 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z Some were seen in annual corporate reports, and one was the model for an etching on a Swedish postage stamp honoring the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison. Helen Marcus, Prolific Photographer of the Famous, Dies at 97 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z In the fall of 1993, my coursework, as a Princeton sophomore, included an introductory survey of British literature, an intermediate lesson in Latin, and a seminar, with Toni Morrison, titled Studies in American Africanism. The Indelible Substance of a Semester with Toni Morrison 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Rankine's reliance on second-person point of view is grounded in Toni Morrison's assertion that the focus on the Black body as a racialized subject must be shifted toward a critique of whiteness. Best of 2020: George Floyd and the white gaze 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z And after waiting 23 years for an American to win the literature prize — Toni Morrison was our last one — wouldn’t the Swedes finally recognize DeLillo or Philip Roth or Joyce Carol Oates? Does a musician have any right to win the Nobel Prize in literature? 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison was such an exceptional talent, and seemed to float so high above the fray, that it’s easy to forget she was a product of her time. Toni Morrison and Nina Simone, United in Soul 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z One of the sharpest films I’ve seen about the immigrant experience in some time, “Exile” dramatizes Toni Morrison’s famous assertion: “The very serious function of racism … is distraction.” Five International Movies to Stream Now 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z Fader went on to play point guard at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore., but experienced “an intellectual awakening” after reading Toni Morrison. Review | Giannis is the king of the court. In a new biography, he’s also a humble soul. 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z The board’s decision came amid a wave of conservative-sponsored legislation and other actions to pull books from schools, with other banned works including Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” and Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.” Sales soar for ‘Maus’ after its banning in Tennessee 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z The august gatekeepers might tolerate the humor in Michael Chabon’s “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” but Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” is closer to their solemn hearts. Perspective | Finally, a comic novel gets a Pulitzer Prize. It’s about time. 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z “If you broaden your view and read the work as a whole, you’ve got Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved.’” Book Ban Efforts Spread Across the U.S. 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z I sifted through a bunch of dusty, out-of-print monstrosities, my despair mounting, until I found a stack of Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye,” and rejoiced. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z With shows like “The Jeffersons,” books by Toni Morrison and Alice Walker and plays by LeRoi Jones, the “Porgy and Bess” characters were part of a richer depiction of African-American life. Op-Ed Columnist: In ?Porgy and Bess,? Variations on an Explosive Theme 2012-01-22T04:49:04Z As one would expect, Toni Morrison is neither giving interviews nor appearing at screenings of the documentary film about her life. Analysis | Toni Morrison has kept the public at arm’s length. Now she’s letting people in on her terms. 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Those outside the publishing business might be impressed that an author knows George Saunders/Toni Morrison/Marilynne Robinson, but those on the inside know that Saunders/Morrison/Robinson was really that person’s creative writing professor. With a Little Help From Their Friends (and Agents and Librarians and Fact-Checkers ...) 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z It is an extraordinarily ambitious rewriting of a historical story which has been approached by a number of distinguished writers including Toni Morrison. Booker prize sees Peter Carey and Emma Donoghue head shortlist 2010-09-07T19:22:00Z Before that, the passages Jones did find — in Harriet Jacobs’s “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,” in Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” — all involved Black men being assaulted by white ones. Robert Jones Jr. Is Son of Baldwin, and More 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z As we mourn the recent passing of literary giants such as Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall, this book is a significant testament to the enduring resonance of black women’s writing. Review | For many writers, Zora Neale Hurston’s work has been a guiding light. Now there’s even more to read. 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z Honorée Fanonne Jeffers invites us to see as “nearly a revolutionary act” Toni Morrison’s insistence in 1983 that white people had a race too. Sexist Silences and Other Letters to the Editor 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z April: Toni Morrison’s God Help the Child , about the way childhood trauma haunts a woman’s life. Top 10 most anticipated novels of 2015 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z And it taps a literary tradition — including the work of Harriet Jacobs, Gwendolyn Brooks and Toni Morrison — that pulled from the traumas and triumphs of the black American experience to envision a more humane future. Visionary Musicians Seek Truths for the Future in a Spiritual Past 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z I was certain it was from a Toni Morrison novel, but when I consulted Google, I was reminded that the phrase harkened from Morrison’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech. Dying, with a lifetime of literature 2017-03-15T04:00:00Z He started to realize that he, too, could have a voice and took heart in Toni Morrison’s exhortation that if the book you want to read hasn’t been written, “you must write it.” Javier Zamora Carried a Heavy Load. He Laid it to Rest on the Page. 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z I would add Toni Morrison for him and his daughters. Obama’s Secret to Surviving the White House Years: Books 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z The last American writer to win the Nobel was Toni Morrison, in 1993. The Nobel Prize in Literature: A Year for Long Shots? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison’s first two books — “The Bluest Eye” with the purity of its terrors and “Sula” with its dense poetry and the depth of its probing into a small circle of lives — were strong novels. Review: ‘Song of Solomon,’ by Toni Morrison 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z The result, strangely enough, is that the true misery of much of the African American experience is better communicated through fiction, by writers such as Toni Morrison, Edward Jones and Richard Wright. The African American Museum tells powerful stories — but not as powerfully as it could 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z To be honest, my favorite book to assign, besides “The Fire Next Time,” is Toni Morrison’s novel “Beloved.” Eddie Glaude Jr., an Expert on James Baldwin, Reveals His Favorite Baldwin Book 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z The last American writer to win the Nobel for literature was Toni Morrison, in 1993. Patrick Modiano Wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z “Marie Curie, for instance, subjected to fashion commentary? Or Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison appraised for her hairstyle? In receiving the Pritzker, Hadid joins those noble ranks and deserves better. Architecture deserves better.” Female Architects on the Significance of Zaha Hadid 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z These aren’t poems, but I’d say “The Bluest Eye,” by Toni Morrison, and “Dandelion Wine,” by Ray Bradbury, really jump-started my interest in writing as a craft. Amanda Gorman, the Inaugural Poet Who Dreams of Writing Novels 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z “I’m a really big Toni Morrison disciple,” he said. How Hanif Abdurraqib Cuts Through the Noise 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z He is the first American to win since the novelist Toni Morrison, in 1993. Bob Dylan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison read her beautiful text, Max Roach was at the drums and Bill T. Jones was dancing. Toni Morrison Dancing: Photos of the Author at Work and Play 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison “‘Song of Solomon’ is a book I think of when I imagine people going through hardship. President Obama’s Reading List 2017-01-18T05:00:00Z At various times the current US president has named a library of favourite authors ranging from Toni Morrison to Nietzsche, and has been seen carrying a collection of Derek Walcott's poetry. Books and the ballot box 2010-05-04T10:00:00Z And “Beloved,” by Toni Morrison, which I’m trying to read right now. ‘Food Is Culture’: Alice Waters on the Cookbook That Changed Her Life 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z He became the first American to win the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993 and, more significantly, he became the first songwriter, from any country, to win it ever. Why Bob Dylan’s Impact Is Bigger Than His Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z Marquinn Booker, a 22-year-old from Houston and the president of Prairie View’s student body, gave the welcome remarks at the first virtual gathering for the Toni Morrison writing program. What a $50 Million Donation Did for One H.B.C.U. 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z Even something like Toni Morrison's "Playing in the Dark." Author Elaine Castillo talks about empathy, Jane Austen adaptations, and "How to Read Now" 2022-08-04T04:00:00Z In a 2003 interview, Toni Morrison issued a warning to Black writers everywhere who have tried to wrestle onto the page the sense of their own invisibility. Esi Edugyan Revives Black Stories, to Move the Margin Into the Center 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Set in the afterlife, Toni Morrison’s script is mostly a series of meaty speeches mixed in with affecting songs. | 'Desdemona': ?Desdemona? at Lincoln Center White Light Festival - Review 2011-11-03T22:47:19Z In works like Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” and Alice Walker’s “The Third Life of Grange Copeland,” both published in 1970, the writers explored the specific ways Black women contend with racial and gendered violence. ‘Told It Like It Was’: Ntozake Shange’s Tales of Black Womanhood 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z As Toni Morrison wrote in the preface to "The Black Book": 7 thrilling books by Black authors you need to read now 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z She eventually lures Dominique away to a “wimmin’s commune” called Spirit Moon, a place vaguely reminiscent of Toni Morrison’s “Paradise.” Review | Bernardine Evaristo’s ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ received half a Booker Prize, but it deserves all the glory 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z When Toni Morrison wrote her first novel, The Bluest Eye, she was working as an editor at the publishing company, Random House. Toni Morrison on America and race 2012-10-06T03:08:43Z I was wondering if you could talk a little bit about Toni Morrison as an inspiration and this story, in particular, because it's such an interesting one. Bryant Terry says he just wrote his last cookbook—but this top chef hasn't finished leaving his mark 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z Their theme is “On the Job,” and, unsurprisingly, Toni Morrison’s entry is particularly lovely. The New Narrative, the writer's life and, yes, cats 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Despite a string of 20th century laureates, no American has been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature since Toni Morrison's 1993 win. Book trends in 2016: Paper is popular, science fiction rises, long-form nonfiction dips 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z If you are interested in his nonfiction writings, I would urge you to pick up his “Collected Essays,” edited by Toni Morrison, or “The Price of the Ticket.” Eddie Glaude Jr., an Expert on James Baldwin, Reveals His Favorite Baldwin Book 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z My older daughter read "Beloved" by Toni Morrison in school and raved about it and I haven’t read it so I’ll take that one. Authors Steve Cavanagh and Adrian McKinty: How growing up in Northern Ireland's Troubles shaped them 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z I love Toni Morrison’s work, I respect everything she does, she’s skillful and brilliant. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Disarming Humor in ‘Heads of the Colored People’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z At 18, he returned to the United States to attend Princeton, where he took writing workshops with Ms. Oates and Toni Morrison. Global Migration Meets Magic in Mohsin Hamid’s Timely Novel 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z The notion of a curse flows through the work of Toni Morrison and Cormac McCarthy. The Ghost Story Persists in American Literature. Why? 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z "The fact that our school spent more money on her than Toni Morrison is a little ludicrous," Rehman said. Rutgers pays Snooki more than Nobel winner for talk 2011-04-01T17:35:12Z Higgins works for Sixth & I subcontractor Potomac Sound and has been coordinating audio for the synagogue for nearly a decade, first for a Shabbat service and then for a book talk with Toni Morrison. This synagogue needed two arks for the High Holidays. So it turned to a Quaker. 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z “Teaching is the second best thing to writing for me,” Toni Morrison told a large audience in 2012. Toni Morrison’s former students reflect: ‘She had this physical presence, this voice, that just took up space in this very magical way’ 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison wrote to us again and again, exhorting our beauty, making us grapple with our pain, reaffirming our humanity. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison once told me a story about going on “Oprah” for the first time. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” and Zadie Smith’s “White Teeth” are two examples of books that made me feel I was for somewhere else, and for something else. Claudia Rankine Wishes More Writers Thought About Whiteness 2020-11-26T05:00:00Z "Toni Morrison has this wonderful idea about re-memory and how memories exist in the places where they occurred, so you can go back to those places and they're right there," he explains. How Airborne Toxic Event's album "Hollywood Park" became the "soundtrack" to Mikel Jollett's memoir 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z So he took that Toni Morrison line about creating the nonexistent books you want to read to heart: He sat down and wrote a book for his younger self. From Missing Persons to Mistaken Identities, Books About Seeing and Being Seen 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z That’s how Toni Morrison writes in “Beloved” about the spiteful specter that haunts an old house in Cincinnati. Review | ‘The Revisioners’ reminds us of slavery’s long reach, through the generations 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z Soprano Elizabeth Caballero was on the grand side for Previn's song cycle "Honey and Rue," but Toni Morrison's texts could take it. L.A. Phil's vision of Grand Avenue as a shelter for new work, ideas 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison is the greatest chronicler of the American experience that we have ever known. ‘How We Weep for Our Beloved’: Writers and Thinkers Remember Toni Morrison 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z She then quoted the late Toni Morrison: “The function of freedom is to free someone else.” Justin Torres and Ned Blackhawk are among the winners of National Book Awards 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z The pop revolutions of the 20th century work their way through biographies of Madonna and Lou Reed, memoirs by Sly Stone and Werner Herzog, histories of High Times magazine and Toni Morrison’s brilliant circle. 18 best nonfiction books for fans of Madonna, memoirs or cultural histories 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Like Toni Morrison, Ward employs the power of the ancestors and lyricism. An enslaved woman charts a path in Jesmyn Ward’s ‘Let Us Descend’ 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z “While admiring Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ got me praise in my writing classes,” she remembers, leaning into the camera for emphasis, “liking Stephen King got me raised eyebrows.” Black horror is having a big moment. So is its pioneer, Tananarive Due 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Glück was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature since Toni Morrison in 1993 and the first American poet so honored since T.S. Louise Glück, former U.S. poet laureate and Nobel winner who wrote with 'austere beauty,' dies at 80 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z Previous winners of the prize - given for a body of work, rather than a book - have included Toni Morrison, Doris Lessing, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Bob Dylan. Jon Fosse: Norwegian author and playwright wins Nobel Literature Prize 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z IO: These tree studies your mom documented are on par with Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” — as Baby Suggs’ life was ending, she was “pondering color” through requests of “lavender” or “pink” flowers. Grief has its own abstract language. Tomashi Jackson shows you how 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison’s “A Mercy,” in less than 200 pages, effectively recapitulates America’s tortuous racial history. A new novel by Nobelist J.M. Coetzee, 83, is a masterclass in the 'late style' at its best 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Black horror pioneer Tananarive Due helps us pick 6 great books from the genre, from a Toni Morrison classic to a new anthology by Jordan Peele. Black horror is having a big moment. So is its pioneer, Tananarive Due 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z In today’s news roundup, the Philippines battles a dengue outbreak, author Toni Morrison passes away, Venice puts a limit on big boats, and dry weather in Thailand has made a lost temple reappear. Drought Causes Flooded Spanish Village to Appear Again 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z The unflinching wisdom of Toni Morrison lends not only purpose but propulsion to the stage adaptation of her first novel, “The Bluest Eye,” now at Pasadena’s A Noise Within through Sept. 24. Review: Toni Morrison's unflinching wisdom guides a propulsive 'The Bluest Eye' at A Noise Within 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z Widely disputed books over the past couple years include Maia Kobabe’s graphic memoir “Gender Queer,” Juno Dawson’s “This Book Is Gay,” and Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye,” the ALA points out. Conservative book ban push fuels library exodus from national association that stands up for books 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z Aug. 27-Sept 24 ‘The Bluest Eye’ Lydia R. Diamond’s stage adaptation of Toni Morrison’s debut novel is already underway at A Noise Within. 30 must-see arts events in Southern California this fall 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z The mere mention of the name Toni Morrison would be enough to make a “must-read,” but the Nobel laureate is only one link in the chain of Thorsson’s “Sisterhood.” 30 books we can't wait to read this fall 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z The theorist bell hooks notes in an essay on Toni Morrison that few Black women writers are considered “serious.” Yet another critic on the Death of the Novel: What he and everyone else are missing 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z We hear it when a member of Meredith’s book club frets about reverse racism if she uses a particular word when discussing Toni Morrison’s “Beloved.” How Laura Lippman's new thriller, 'Prom Mom,' honors L.A. noir master James. M. Cain 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z We tend to think it’s the endurance of the work that allows the greats — Shakespeare, Toni Morrison, Cormac McCarthy — to live forever. John McPhee calls his new book an "old-people project." Consider the alternative 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z The administration and others have said the bans are chaotic and can go too far, even pulling in classics such as Toni Morrison’s “Beloved.” White House announces steps to shield LGBT community ahead of Pride event 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Books that have been removed from shelves in Florida include a picture book about two male penguins raising a chick, Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” and Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Fact-Checking DeSantis’s Opening Bid for the Presidency 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Forsyth County in January 2022 removed eight books, including Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye,” but allowed seven to return after further consideration. Georgia school’s book bans may break civil rights law, federal officials warn 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Books removed or restricted by Florida’s Escambia County School District include titles by Toni Morrison like “Beloved” and “The Bluest Eye” and a story about a penguin dad couple “And Tango Makes Three.” How the word ‘racism’ scuttled a book deal — and what came next 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Penguin Random House has had two of its books, “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison and “Push” by Sapphire, removed from some Escambia School District libraries. Why the world's largest publisher found a book-ban lawsuit in Florida 'irresistible' 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z Books mentioned in the lawsuit that were banned include "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, "Lucky" by Alice Sebold, and "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky, among others. "Blatantly unconstitutional": Angry parents sue Florida school district for banning books 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z Also removed were nine books from James Patterson’s “Maximum Ride” series and two books by Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison, among other titles. The 15 most banned books in America this school year 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z “My mom talked about Toni Morrison as if she was, like, God,” she says. No, Emily Ratajkowski won't just shut up and look pretty 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Days after a Virginia school district superintendent proposed closing school libraries to address budgetary concerns, he has also ordered the removal of 14 books from school libraries, including two by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. Spotsylvania to remove 14 books from school libraries for explicit content 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The Toni Morrison Achievement Award, for “institutions that have made lasting and meaningful contributions to book culture,” was given to San Francisco’s City Lights bookstore. Ling Ma, Beverly Gage among authors honored by book critics 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z There’s stuff on there far more scarring than a book about a gay penguin and more provocative than any work by Toni Morrison — the main targets of the Bill-of-Rights parenting crew. Perspective | Parents’ rights? How about a ‘Parents’ Bill of Responsibilities’ instead? 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z A private historically Black university known for famous alumni such as author Toni Morrison and Vice President Harris, Howard has never been a basketball powerhouse. Perspective | Kenny Blakeney dreamed big, and Howard is turning it into reality 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z “Over the years, I selected four of Toni Morrison’s books to read as a community more than any other author,” she said Tuesday in a pre-recorded video. Toni Morrison honored with new stamp, unveiled at Princeton 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z “It might mean finding that writer who is just being overlooked because of the canonicity of, say, Toni Morrison,” Rambsy says. The New Black Canon: Books, Plays and Poems That Everyone Should Know 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z “We have to!” thundered a local writer, quoting Toni Morrison: “‘This is precisely the time when artists go to work.’ Travis Bickle, meet Toni Morrison, in a socially probing, fiercely fun debut novel 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z She speculated that Butler, “our queen of Pasadena,” would have stocked the classics — James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Langston Hughes. How Octavia Butler inspired a pathbreaking Black-owned Pasadena bookstore 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Howard certainly didn’t invent or own colorism, but it’s notable how closely Eleanor’s experiences echo author Toni Morrison’s reflections about her time on campus in the same period. Review | ‘The House of Eve’ is a triumph of historical fiction 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z The required readings include writings from King and Malcolm X, as well as authors Toni Morrison, Gwendolyn Brooks and Maya Angelou. Amid DeSantis attacks, AP African American studies course is updated 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Books written by or about luminaries such as Toni Morrison and Rosa Parks are being kept out of school libraries, either because conservative parents objected or officials are worried that they will. Opinion | What more education on racial issues taught me 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z It recalls what the late Toni Morrison so wisely said: “The very serious function of racism is distraction.” Essay: Martin Luther King Day should make you uncomfortable 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Toni Morrison, inspired by her father’s wisdom, once wrote: “You are not the work you do; you are the person you are.” Review | ‘The Survivalists’ pits corporate climbing against armageddon readiness 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z So there’s a little James Baldwin, there’s a little Toni Morrison. Debra Ann Byrd makes space for artists of color in Shakespeare 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z He had previously curated shows on writers James Baldwin and Toni Morrison and wanted to bring Didion’s work and life to a museum in California. Remembering Joan Didion, beyond her words 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z It has also landed Kobabe in the company of Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Mark Twain, authors whose canonical works on race, gender and free expression have been on and off banned lists for decades. How 'Gender Queer: A Memoir' became America's most banned book 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The new documentary tells of Caro’s long and complicated relationship with Gottlieb, whose other authors have included the Nobel laureates Toni Morrison and Doris Lessing. Caro still working away on fifth LBJ book, no pub date set 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z “Cleopatra’s Nose,” her first collection of essays from the New Yorker, where she’s a staff writer, included insightful pieces on Anne Frank, Jackie Kennedy and Toni Morrison. From Amelia Earhart to Miuccia Prada, a new book collects history's 'left-handed women' 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z And one instructor advised her to read Toni Morrison’s award-winning “Beloved” to gain a deeper understanding of Black lives so she could “come across acculturated,” Clark said. Supreme court affirmative action debate captures Asian American fear of bias in admissions 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Join T Magazine and poet Morgan Parker for a virtual conversation about Toni Morrison’s “Jazz” on Oct. Your Thursday Briefing 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z “I asked Toni Morrison, who said, ‘You’ve been talking about this woman for years. The Monumental Work and Life of Barbara Chase-Riboud 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z “The Furrows” is an English major’s dream date: Serpell taps influences across genres, from Virginia Woolf to Dashiell Hammett to Toni Morrison. Namwali Serpell probes the disorienting flow of grief in ‘The Furrows’ 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Since we grew up in the same town, I had an in with Toni Morrison and was able to sweet-talk her into a piece about Jean Toomer. Perspective | Book World began on Watergate’s heels: A look back at the early days 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z And don’t forget about Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” which is frowned upon by those still living in the 19th century because she treats racism realistically. Opinion | The book-banning crowd is back. Resist them. 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z For instance, in 2007, Jefferson County Public Schools – a school district that covers Louisville, Kentucky – removed Toni Morrison's "Beloved" from an AP English class at Eastern High School. Educator warns GOP’s anti-CRT crusade threatens AP classes as teachers "fired or forced to resign" 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z However, you can explain why you love Toni Morrison’s Beloved and think that others should read it too. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z A BookLooks review of Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison’s novel “The Bluest Eye,” often taught at the high school level, labeled it a “4” — meaning it should not be read by anyone under 18. Students lose access to books amid ‘state-sponsored purging of ideas’ 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z In southwest Florida, Collier County public schools slapped a warning sticker on 110 books — including the literary classics “Beloved,” by Toni Morrison, and “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” by Maya Angelou. Perspective | Book bans are threatening American democracy. Here’s how to fight back. 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z In the more than three decades since, the store has hosted luminaries including Muhammad Ali, Toni Morrison and Alice Walker. A Beloved Black-Run Bookstore in Los Angeles Is Closing 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z "Beloved," along with other books authored by Toni Morrison, is among the most frequently referenced texts on the AP Literature and Composition exam. Educator warns GOP’s anti-CRT crusade threatens AP classes as teachers "fired or forced to resign" 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Jacobs-Jenkins: I felt compelled to try to get Toni Morrison on the list, and “Jazz” is one of my favorite novels of hers. The 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z When Allen arrived, she was greeted by art of female activists on the comforting sea green walls: Toni Morrison, Dolores Huerta and Madonna Thunder Hawk. Amid abortion debate, clinic asks: Who’s caring for moms? 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z The last time I was there, I just stared at a portrait of Toni Morrison for quite a while and then Frida Kahlo — that oil on canvas — I just enjoyed that so much. How Sylvia Bugg of PBS would spend a perfect day in D.C. 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z Youngkin ran a campaign ad using Virginia mom Laura Murphy, who dabbled in book bans a decade ago when “Beloved,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Toni Morrison, gave her high school senior night terrors. Perspective | Banning books to save kids? Please. Bullets are more dangerous. 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z In fact, mother and daughter began “Parable” as a joint project, first in a Princeton seminar led by Toni Morrison and later as a concert suite of songs. Folk-opera take on sci-fi novel comes to town, after a long gestation 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z For a Black girl who grew up loving Jane Austen and Toni Morrison with equal aplomb, Harlem Toile was more than wallpaper. The wallpaper that is also a ‘reminder that my ancestors had my back’ 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison has a series of lectures on the nature of goodness and evil. A National Poetry Month conversation with Paul Tran, author of ‘All the Flowers Kneeling’ 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z “The Bluest Eye,” by Nobel Prize laureate Toni Morrison, is the fifth most-banned book, having been pulled from 12 districts, per PEN America. More books are banned than ever before, as Congress takes on the issue 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z “What’s disappointing to me is that all of 2021’s entries, outside of Toni Morrison’s debut novel ‘The Bluest Eye,’ seem devoid of literary merit,” added Mr. Benson, who hosts a podcast on books. Parents challenge sexually explicit books in record numbers 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z He doesn’t believe in banning books and is fine with students reading novels by Toni Morrison, although the late author’s work is a frequent target of right-wing attacks. The uncomfortable leader of an angry crowd: Brian Brase and the ‘People’s Convoy’ 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Ms. Scott graduated from Princeton, where she studied creative writing under Toni Morrison. MacKenzie Scott Gives $436 Million to Habitat for Humanity 2022-03-22T04:00:00Z It was that alchemy of poetry, vernacular speech and cosmic awareness that made him one of our great bards, on the same plane as Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Amiri Baraka. Who will inherit Greg Tate's mantle of Black cultural critic-in-chief? I have a candidate 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z We weren’t out of Anacostia before I realized that my fast was their cool-down and I was getting dropped like a Toni Morrison book in a Southern school district. Perspective | The lesson it took me 42 years — and a death-defying trip down Rock Creek Parkway — to learn 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z One girl is Black, the other is white, but the reader of “Recitatif,” Toni Morrison’s only short story, never knows which is which. An elegant, timely test for readers from Toni Morrison 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z By Toni Morrison Knopf: 96 pages, $16 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Toni Morrison called her only short story 'an experiment.’ But it’s no game 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Don't want your kid choosing to read "Beloved" by Toni Morrison instead of Ben Shapiro's rancid novel? The secret plan behind Florida's "don't say gay" bill: Bankrupting public education 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Public Library Foundation to consider honoring Toni Morrison, the first Black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in literature, as the auditorium’s namesake instead. D.C. activists once wrote letters to name MLK Library. They did it again to push out Jeff Bezos. 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Books that depict graphic sex — and that is the problem with Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” not the topic of slavery — have no place in school libraries and curriculums. Opinion | The Rise in Book Bans and Censorship 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z In 2013, the Toni Morrison Society placed a “Bench by the Road” for visitors to Walden Woods to contemplate the lives of Freeman and the other Black people who had lived there. The Black people who lived in Walden Woods long before Henry David Thoreau 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z I’m at a bit of a loss over how to write about Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif.” Toni Morrison called her only short story 'an experiment.’ But it’s no game 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Everything from Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” to Dav Pilkey’s “Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People” is being consigned to the metaphorical fire. Let teachers teach 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z The Post’s excellent Jan. 23 front-page article “In buying a home, family discovers its painful past” included an important error in the Toni Morrison quote as described by an interviewee. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Show photos of the ‘right’ masks worn properly 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” has been banned before and is being threatened again — in one case after a mother complained that the book gave her son nightmares. Opinion | My Young Mind Was Disturbed by a Book. It Changed My Life. 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z As Jon Skolnik reports for Salon, a Missouri school district banned "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison, using the usual bad faith claims that the objections were somehow about graphic sex. Republicans said they wouldn't ban books or erase history — but that is exactly what they're doing 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z On Thursday, a Missouri school board voted 4-3 to formally pull Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye" from high school libraries in the district. Book banning fever heats up in red states 2022-01-26T05:00:00Z Remember the Virginia mom who tried to ban Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “Beloved,” because it gave her high school senior nightmares? Perspective | Youngkin’s first act as Virginia governor — while quoting the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — is ominous 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z But her editor — Toni Morrison, by the way — convinced her of the value of doing a political memoir. Review: Angela Davis revises herself. She's never mattered more 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z Finding few books on library architecture that were not centuries-old and in a dead or mildewed language, he took the advice of a neighbor across the street, novelist Toni Morrison. How many books does it take to make a place feel like home? 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z In her speech at Howard University, Toni Morrison asserted that fascism relies upon media to convey an illusion of power to its followers. Fascism in America: It's nowhere near as new as you might think 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Alice Walker, Toni Morrison and Jamaica Kincaid are all known for vividly chronicling the lives of Black women. Review | The exceptional stories in ‘On Girlhood’ explore the realities of growing up Black and female 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z We hold her memory close with Toni Morrison, whose work she studied through her 1983 dissertation. hooks was an influential voice in the legendary scholarship of Saidiya Hartman, her former teacher’s assistant at Yale. Appreciation: Here's what we all owe bell hooks, beginning with me 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z She received a master’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin in 1976 and a doctorate in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1983, with a dissertation on Toni Morrison. bell hooks, pathbreaking Black feminist, dies 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Knowing the story of flying Africans, being familiar with them through Toni Morrison and Virginia Hamilton. In the vastness of the desert, there are so many ways to fly 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z David Treuer believes he might be one of a few professionals doing what a friend called “The Toni Morrison trifecta”: teaching, writing and editing. Author David Treuer mentored a generation of Native authors. Now, he'll publish them 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z This story and the subsequent one, Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif,” home in on the intimate interactions between Black mothers and their daughters during a crucial developmental juncture. Review | The exceptional stories in ‘On Girlhood’ explore the realities of growing up Black and female 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z To teach Shakespeare and Toni Morrison, to read Gabriel García Márquez or Frederick Douglass, is to elicit swells of emotions, they said, out of which can arise introspection and self-recognition, sorrow and joy. In Texas, a Battle Over What Can Be Taught, and What Books Can Be Read 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z That included Toni Morrison’s acclaimed “Song of Solomon,” which details a young Black man’s quest for cultural identity. A white teacher taught white students about white privilege. It cost him his job 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Although I am no William Shakespeare, I share the world with Shakespeare, with Toni Morrison, with a glorious novelist new to me named Anne Griffin. Opinion | From sunsets to laughter, a universe of things to be thankful for 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z A favorite target is the late Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” a novel about slavery that depicts matters of a sexual nature. Opinion | In Virginia, dial ‘C’ for ‘crisis’ 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z As Toni Morrison once explained, "The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being." Don't be shocked if Kyle Rittenhouse goes free — that's the system working as designed 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z This suspicion has been validated by the fact that the book targeted by Republican Glenn Youngkin's gubernatorial campaign in Virginia was the Pulitzer-winning classic "Beloved" by Toni Morrison. The Rittenhouse effect: Republicans want a Stasi of their own 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z Among the titles put on pause are decades-old classics such as Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” and Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye,” as well as a nonfiction account of the Ku Klux Klan. Backlash to school books centering on race, sex and LGBTQ people turns into conservative rallying cry 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z Among the titles put on pause: Decades-old classics such as Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” and Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye,” as well as a nonfiction account of the Ku Klux Klan. School books on race, sex, LGBTQ people have triggered conservative rallying cry 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z While the Republican promised to dictate what is and isn't taught in Virginia schools, Youngkin didn't win because he ran on banning Toni Morrison. CNN's milk report: Why right-wing misinformation will always get amplified by the mainstream media 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z “Really, you know, one of the monstrous things that slavery in this country caused was the breakup of families,” Toni Morrison said in a 2008 interview with NPR. Perspective | These stories are supposed to give you nightmares 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z If the public knew what the GOP demands actually were — banning classic books like Toni Morrison's "Beloved" or "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood — most parents would not be on board. The GOP attacks on schools is the next step in the religious right's war on children's rights 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Indeed, he went so far as to release an ad featuring a mother expressing outrage that her child had been assigned to read “Beloved,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Toni Morrison. More issues, less Trump: GOP sees model after Virginia win 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z In particular, Toni Morrison’s novel “Beloved,” about the brutality of slavery, was targeted. Opinion | Youngkin just handed Republicans their 2022 blueprint 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z There, the question has become whether reading Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” would cause students discomfort in its realistic portrayal of slavery. Nastashia Deón: Virginia's 'Beloved' controversy shows there can be no healing without pain 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z It was coined in reference to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Toni Morrison novel, which contains graphic descriptions of sex and violence in its depiction of a Civil War-era Black woman. Virginia braces for Election Day as polls show dead heat between McAuliffe, Youngkin 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Of course, Youngkin is embarrassed to admit it because the answer is "Beloved," a canonical novel by Nobel prize winner Toni Morrison. Stop downplaying the GOP's war on speech 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The final days of the campaign for Virginia governor are turning to a surprising degree on Toni Morrison. Debate over teaching books by Black authors has roots in violent 1974 clash in West Virginia 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Youngkin recently released an ad featuring a woman who fought against the Toni Morrison book “Beloved” in schools. Fearful Democrats look at Virginia and worry about 2022 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z He ran an ad featuring a mother and GOP activist who eight years ago led an effort to ban “Beloved,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Black Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, from classrooms. A post-Trump test for Democrats looms in Virginia election 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z "But I'm in on Toni Morrison, I'm in on acknowledging racism still persist." Bill Maher warns Virginia Dems: McAuliffe could lose election over schools issue because 'parents vote' 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z "He's gone from banning a woman's right to choose to banning books written by a Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize-winning author, Toni Morrison." Joe Biden calls out Glenn Youngkin for trying to distance himself from Trump: “Is he embarrassed?” 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z That novel blended a ghost story with a chronicle of the final years of slavery, in the tradition of Toni Morrison’s “Beloved.” Why an L.A. novelist made her immortal Black protagonist an L.A. Times reporter 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The acclaimed 1987 novel by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison is about an escaped slave who kills her infant daughter rather than allowing the girl to be returned to the plantation. Biden ties Republican in race for Va. governor to Trump 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z The acclaimed 1987 novel by Nobel laurate Toni Morrison is about an escaped slave who kills her infant daughter rather than allowing the girl to be returned to the plantation. Biden heads to Virginia amid high-stakes governor’s race 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z At the heart of the issue: “Beloved,” the novel by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison about a Civil War-era Black woman who kills her own 2-year-old daughter to spare her from the evils of slavery. Fight over teaching ‘Beloved’ book in schools becomes hot topic in Virginia governor’s race 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z They’re a cornerstone in my “real life,” like Toni Morrison advised. Does art hold the key to a healthier family structure? Two friends text it out 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z The legislation was inspired by parents who didn’t want their teenagers exposed to “Beloved,” Toni Morrison’s novel about the traumatic legacy of slavery. Opinion | Critical race theory is a potent issue in the Virginia governor’s race 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z The dispute was prompted by a mother who objected to her son, a high school senior, reading literary classics including Toni Morrison’s “Beloved.” The Unlikely Issue Shaping the Virginia Governor’s Race: Schools 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z The last Black recipient of the prize was Toni Morrison in 1993. And the 2021 Nobel Prizes go to men... so far 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The Nobel prize official Twitter account posted about 1993 winner Toni Morrison. The Nobel prize in literature 2021 – live! 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Over the last 23 years, this author who Toni Morrison said changed Black women’s literature forever has been an invisible woman. She Changed Black Literature Forever. Then She Disappeared. 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z White supremacy, Toni Morrison taught, desires to interrupt and distract, desires to get in the way of imagination. Perspective | The future of the Black church includes its ability to reckon with how it has treated its queer members 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and Octavia Butler are my three favorite authors. Melina Abdullah is showing L.A. how to be accountable to a future we can’t yet see 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z This is why the book begins with the snake, but ends with Toni Morrison's bird. Could genocide really happen here? Leading scholar says America is on "high alert" 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z One of the most powerful and distinguished storytellers of our time: Toni Morrison, became the first African American woman to be awarded a #NobelPrize when she received the literature prize in 1993. The Nobel prize in literature 2021 – live! 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z More than that, as Toni Morrison put it, “the function of freedom is to free someone else.” Opinion | Juneteenth Is a National Holiday Now. Can It Still Be Black? 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z This is fitting, since Toni Morrison once said: “If there’s a book you really want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” Four chilling debut thrillers for your summer reading list 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z I chose Toni Morrison because, as a writer, her moving, descriptive stories inspire my own. What’s on your desk, Adia Watts? 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Racism, in addition to all the words a mourning Jackson used to describe it on April 5, 1968, is what Toni Morrison calls, "a fantasy." The best way to honor Martin Luther King Jr.'s memory is to advance the work of economic justice 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison expanded the rhetorical gambits available for writing about the Midwest; Cormac McCarthy did as much for the Southwest. Ken Burns' new Hemingway documentary doesn't give you a reason to read Hemingway 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z As an example, Mabanckou cites two major influences on his work, Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou — translated by white women into his native French. Amanda Gorman brings the representation debate to the small world of book translation 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z Why am I being asked questions that James Baldwin answered in the 1960s, that Toni Morrison answered in the 80s? White people, black authors are not your medicine | Yaa Gyasi 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z A Toni Morrison print hangs on the wall at left, above Medusa the snake plant. What’s on your desk, Adia Watts? 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z There’s another book I reread too — “Sula” by Toni Morrison. Rep. Marilyn Strickland tells us what she’s reading 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z Her mother-in-law was Toni Morrison, who transformed American literature and was the first Black woman to receive the Nobel Prize in literature. Meet the economist charged with keeping Biden’s promises to women and people of color 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z I read so much Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison, I was like, “I’m a writer! I’m a poet!” After a stellar run of standout roles, Marsha Stephanie Blake is ready for more 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z In fact, it’s the premise of Toni Morrison’s critical masterwork, “Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination.” Review: A striking debut novel imagines two enslaved men in love 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z I imagined she believes, as Toni Morrison once said, that “the very serious function of racism” is “distraction. It keeps you from doing your work.” Kamala Harris, Mass Incarceration and Me 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z Her new list, announced in partnership with Apple, includes Eckhart Tolle’s spiritual guide “The Power of Now” and a classic novel she picked in 1996 for her book club, Toni Morrison’s “Song of Solomon.” `The books that see her through’: Winfrey suggests seven 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z “It’s surreal to think I’m walking across the same Yard Toni Morrison walked across.” Howard’s homecoming is a family reunion. In a year of loss and protest, coming together feels more urgent. 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z “Of course I read Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and other classic Black writers in college,” she says. A South L.A. crime novelist's long road to writing one of best books of the year 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z The poet is the first American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature since Toni Morrison, who won in 1993. Enough with militias. Let’s call them what they really are: domestic terrorists | Arwa Mahdawi 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z The 16th woman to win the prestigious prize and the first American woman since Toni Morrison in 1993, Glück is the author of 12 poetry collections and several volumes of essays on literary writing. Where to start with Louise Glück, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in literature 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Gluck is the first American woman to win the award since Toni Morrison in 1993. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Louise Gluck wins Nobel Prize in literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z She is the first American woman to win the award since Toni Morrison did so in 1993. Louise Glück's reaction to her Nobel Prize win is all of us before coffee 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Hayes’s own explorations go back to the slave trade, interrogating the legacies of Black Lives Matter heroes ranging from Martin Luther King and Emmett Till to Aretha Franklin and Toni Morrison. Rage, white supremacy and roses: the art that sums up the Trump era 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z With “Beloved” and other writings, Toni Morrison gave voice to the silences in the past and created some of the most memorable characters in American literature. Why an L.A.-area school district banned, then quietly reinstated Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z “Little Eyes” puts the Argentinian surrealist alongside writers — Shirley Jackson, Toni Morrison — whose horrors expose the rotten parts of ourselves. Review: ‘Bestiary,’ an immigrant tale that puts the (filthy, brutal) realism in magical realism 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Like Sophocles or Samuel Beckett or Toni Morrison — and yet unlike them — Caravaggio is an artist who goes there with us, to the painful places of reality. In Dark Times, I Sought Out the Turmoil of Caravaggio’s Paintings 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z When Toni Morrison received the 1993 Nobel Prize in literature, he did not join in the ovation. Stanley Crouch, combative writer, intellectual and authority on jazz, dies at 74 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Paradise by Toni Morrison Paradise is the story of a group of women living an unconventional existence together in a convent who are attacked by men from the nearby town. Top 10 goddesses in fiction | E Foley and B Coates 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Books by Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison were taken off the shelves, and holiday photo cards sent by friends were edited so that only those showing white families were left on display. Black Homeowners Face Discrimination in Appraisals 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z All good art is political, said the writer Toni Morrison, but that is perhaps more true when the art is produced by a former president. Bush to publish new immigrant portrait book 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison, the first Black woman to receive the Nobel literature prize, died at 88 in New York; her novels included “Beloved,” and “The Bluest Eye.” Today in History 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z If there was a new Toni Morrison book, it was a whole situation. A reckoning long overdue: Dana Canedy and Lisa Lucas on their new positions in publishing 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z Coates received a glowing endorsement from the late Toni Morrison for “Between the World and Me” that was published on the book’s front cover. HBO, Ta-Nehisi Coates team up for book adaptation special on race in America 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z “As the great Toni Morrison said: ‘Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another,’” he continued in his post. NFL veteran, Super Bowl champ Michael Bennett retires after 11 seasons 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z “As the great Toni Morrison said: ‘Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another,’” Bennett wrote on Instagram. Michael Bennett retires from NFL after 11 seasons 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z In her 1975 speech “A Humanist View,” Toni Morrison identified the function of racism as one of “distraction,” a device that “keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.” Opinion | The Problem With ‘Anti-Racist’ Movie Lists 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z As Toni Morrison put it, “The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction.” Opinion | Ilhan Omar: When I spoke out about systematic oppression, the Republican response was vicious 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z She’d been wanting to tell her story since she was a freshman at Princeton, when Toni Morrison encouraged her to turn a piece of writing about the assault into a book. Lacy Crawford was told 'rape stories are a dime a dozen.' She wrote hers anyway 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z American Masters Filmmaker Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ new documentary “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am” profiles the life, work and recurring themes of the Nobel Prize-winning storyteller. What's on TV Tuesday: 'American Masters: Toni Morrison' 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Bennett’s second novel is an expertly plotted and empathetic exploration of race, identity and colourism in the tradition of Toni Morrison. The great escape: 50 brilliant books to transport you this summer 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z “American Masters” remembers the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Beloved” and other novels that explored the African American experience in “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am.” What’s on TV This Week: Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland and more 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z The author Toni Morrison once pointed out that a focus on the victims of racism prevents us from understanding how the structures of racism have shaped its perpetrators. In the midst of a racial reckoning, I'm wondering: What does whiteness mean? 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z The phenomenon runs the gamut from photography and children’s books to novels and memoirs and the “backlist” opus of legends such as James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. Perspective | For publishers, books on race and racism have been a surprising success 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison dedicated Beloved, her novel about slavery, to the “60 million and more”, referring to the Africans and their descendants who died as a result of the slave trade. Germany confronted its racist legacy. Britain and the US must do the same | Susan Neiman 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I am” will round off the series on June 21. Free movies about race in America to watch and learn from 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison, the author, essayist and winner of Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, famously encouraged would-be writers to take action. What’s on TV This Week: Renée Zellweger as Judy Garland and more 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z I was listening to Mika’s song ‘Blue Eyes’ and it made me think of Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye … the ending still chills me. Blue eyes 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z The remark likely referred to Toni Morrison's famous 1998 quip that former President Bill Clinton was "our first black president." After Trump's call, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell expands from manufacturing masks to sourcing them 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Stanley Crouch took up arms against Toni Morrison in the long valley between Selma and Obama. Review | What if the problem of racism has no solution? 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z To me, Toni Morrison’s “Song of Solomon” is a magical realist novel. Dystopian fiction has always been real for Ray Bradbury prize winner Marlon James 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z It’s a comparison that might work better if Vance were a communist inspired by the poetics of Toni Morrison rather than an aspirant to political office in the mold of Ronald Reagan. ‘I Always Write With a Sense of Shame’ 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Despite her large readership, McMillan’s work never received the same care and attention as writing by authors such as Alice Walker or Toni Morrison. Novelist Terry McMillan on love, death and 'dirty secrets' 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Toni Morrison once wrote that the persistence of racism in this country seemed inexplicably enduring to her. Opinion | Did Sexism Doom Elizabeth Warren’s Bid? 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z The remark echoed something famously said by novelist Toni Morrison about former President Bill Clinton in 1998 when she affectionally referred to him as "the first black president." Former NFL star Jack Brewer responds to being called this slur after praising President Trump 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z In a wide-ranging discussion, Vuong also talked about the profound impact on his work of Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” a novel about a black woman who escapes slavery after the Civil War. Ocean Vuong shares stories behind 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous' 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Series regular TK, the owner of a local wrecking yard, embarks on a prickly romance with a church sister and leader of a book group that discusses, with surprising insight, a Toni Morrison novel. Review: Dark times in East Long Beach as Joe Ide's IQ series returns 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Author Toni Morrison and actress Mae West are featured in their own American Masters films. PBS highlighting women with summer of programming 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z The book that changed my life Reading Toni Morrison’s Beloved changed my life. Tsitsi Dangarembga: ‘Reading Toni Morrison’s Beloved changed my life’ 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z “Paco’s Story” was one of five finalists for the National Book Award for fiction, including Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” and Philip Roth’s “The Counterlife.” Larry Heinemann, novelist who explored ghosts of Vietnam, dies at 75 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z “When Toni Morrison says, ‘I’m writing for young black girls,’ even though she says, ‘White people will read it, I hope they do.’ Ocean Vuong shares stories behind 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous' 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z “It’s a strong tradition in African American folklore to talk about flight to freedom. When Toni Morrison spoke of her book ‘The Song of Solomon,’ she spoke of African slaves who ‘flew’ to freedom. Original song Oscar contender Kathryn Bostic is flying 'High Above the Water' 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Todd faced backlash for an interview he did in Rolling Stone where he confused author Toni Morrison and poet Maya Angelou. NBC News' Chuck Todd suggests Trump voters 'want to be lied to,' believe in 'fairy tales' like Noah's Ark 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z He also mentioned the collected works of Toni Morrison, to whom he awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012 and who passed away in August. Barack Obama releases list of his favorite books of 2019 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z “I think we all made the mistake of not following Toni Morrison’s advice, which is when people tell you who they are, believe them,” Todd told the magazine. NBC News Chuck Todd ripped for ‘embarrassing, enraging’ comments about disinformation 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am”: The lack of awards buzz for Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ moving, profound, superbly constructed documentary has been surprising and egregious. 40 under-the-radar 2019 movies and where you can find them 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z He took them deep into the novels of Edward P. Jones and Toni Morrison. Perspective | From the classroom to the school board: A star teacher still leaves his mark 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z “Passion is never enough; neither is skill,” said novelist Toni Morrison, who died in August. In 2019, the urgency — and hysteria — of the news overshadowed rare moments of beauty 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z The death of Toni Morrison in August left a chasm in the publishing world, where she was a “literary mother” to countless writers. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2019 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Todd also faced criticism for confusing author Toni Morrison and poet Maya Angelou in the same interview. NBC News Chuck Todd ripped for ‘embarrassing, enraging’ comments about disinformation 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Toni Morrison was an unapologetic sensualist and a deep intellect. Toni Morrison remembered by Walter Mosley 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Her influences are vast, from the ancient Greeks to Toni Morrison to fairy tales, notably “Jack and the Beanstalk.” Playwright Aleshea Harris' fierce struggle with American racism 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z To me, “A Book of Common Prayer” was feminist in the way that Toni Morrison’s “Sula,” published four years earlier, was feminist—without having to declare itself as such. Joan Didion’s Early Novels of American Womanhood 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z The slide show includes a section entitled “notable deaths” in 2019, including pictures of rocker Eddie Money and author Toni Morrison as well as one of Walker eating a burger while holding a beer. Revenue secretary apologizes for Walker death slide 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Juniper Books Toni Morrison Portrait Set: Celebrate the late Pulitzer Prize-winning author with this beautiful new hardcover collection that includes seven books including “Beloved,” “Song of Solomon” and “The Bluest Eye.” Books, movies and music gifts 2019: Tops finds for the A&E fans on your list | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z This year, it includes framed photographs of Toni Morrison, Rep. Elijah Cummings, and local rapper and community activist Nipsey Hussle, all of whom died this year. For many in Los Angeles, Day of the Dead is a chance for activism 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z He also admired Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot and Emily Dickinson; among the hundreds of critical editions of books he edited were works on Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Amy Tan. Harold Bloom, literary critic who wrote of the ‘anxiety of influence,’ dies at 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z He also admired Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot and Emily Dickinson and the hundreds of critical editions he edited include works on Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou and Amy Tan. Harold Bloom, author and literary critic, dies at age 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Several publishers turned down Toni Morrison’s first novel, “The Bluest Eye,” and she was chastised for years by white critics for focusing too much on black characters. Not so fast: Many Nobel winners endured initial rejections 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Reading it, I was reminded of Toni Morrison’s beautifully written novel “Home,” in which she describes a fictional town with “its unforgiving population, its isolation and especially its indifference to the future.” Opinion | Understanding Trump’s Appeal in Rural America 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z Legal opinions do not often invoke Toni Morrison. The Many Sins of College Admissions 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z She quoted the novelist Toni Morrison, who died in August, saying that “race is the least reliable information you can have about someone.” Harvard Does Not Discriminate Against Asian-Americans in Admissions, Judge Rules 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Arriving direct from theaters are the animated comedy “Missing Link;” concert movie “Amazing Grace,” with Aretha Franklin; and documentary “Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am.” New on Hulu in October 2019: ‘Into the Dark,’ ‘Castle Rock,’ ‘Amazing Grace’ 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z When Toni Morrison died on Aug. 5, the world lost one of its most influential literary voices. One skill that doesn’t deteriorate with age 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z Consider Toni Morrison’s readings of her own novels. Why listen to an actor when you have the voice of Toni Morrison? Here are the best author-narrated audiobooks for fall. 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z |
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