What made her one of our greatest — and most dangerous — novelists was her belief that stories could contain what our minds ...

In The Bluest Eye, Morrison struggled to unite the there and not-there in the same figure: Claudia had occupied the positive ...

In her new book, award-winning novelist Namwali Serpell takes on Toni Morrison, one of the towering figures in American ...

Ohio will celebrate Toni Morrison's life and works with a year-long event, "Beloved: Ohio Celebrates Toni Morrison," ...

Ohio Humanities and Literary Cleveland are launching "Beloved: Ohio Celebrates Toni Morrison," a yearlong initiative honoring ...

She’s been called “America’s Shakespeare” and one of Ohio’s “Black queens.” Wednesday kicks off a yearlong celebration of one ...

The Beloved author’s refusal to conform made her a hero to many – and the only black female writer to have won a Nobel prize in literature ...

Explore the legacies of Toni Morrison and Nina Simone, examining race, memory, and the complexities of Black womanhood in America.

The State of Ohio is spending the next 12 months celebrating the life and works of Toni Morrison.

Morrison’s true genius was as a stylist. Her challenging books demand to be plumbed, debated, compared—and reread.

Author Tayari Jones opens up about the "thyroid storm" and the writer's block that nearly derailed her follow-up to her ...

Serpell leaves no stone unturned in her deep and enriching portrait of the Nobel laureate’s oeuvre ...