To celebrate, the Library will host a monthly book group throughout 2026 to read the works of Morrison. We'll be starting on Feb. 26 with her book ”Song of Solomon,” the 1977 novel that helped her ...

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

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

*Toni Morrison gave folks a pleasant surprise Thursday night as she accepted a lifetime achievement award in Manhattan. The author received the prestigious $25,000 PEN/Saul Bellow Award for ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – As Ohio prepares for a yearlong celebration of Toni Morrison, a leading literary scholar is coming to Cleveland with a major new book about the Nobel Prize-winning author. Harvard ...

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 ...

Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, read two sections from her new novel "Love" last night in Richardson Auditorium, one week after the novel appeared on shelves for sale.

Author Farah Jasmine Griffin, a professor of English and comparative literature and African-American studies at Columbia University, spoke with Toni Morrison about the Nobel Prize winner’s latest work ...

Toni Morrison’s 'Beloved' did not begin as an American classic. It began as a wound. Long before readers and critics called it one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, Morrison ...

I’ve long admired Toni Morrison as a moral visionary, but her fiction, not so much. Of her nine novels, three – “Song of Solomon” (1977), “Beloved” (1987) and 2008’s “A Mercy” – are masterpieces, yet ...