Black bookstores have long been sanctuaries — nurturing Black thought, incubating ideas and cultivating the next generation of readers, writers and revolutionaries. Katie Mitchell’s forthcoming book, ...

Whenever E.M. Forster is discussed, the phrase “only connect” is sure to come up sooner or later. The epigraph to Howards End, the book he described with typical modesty as “my best novel and ...

Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible by Robert Alter (Princeton University Press, 2010) Invisible Conversations: Religion in the Literature of America edited by Roger Lundin (Baylor ...

A work of biography, an essay on literature and memory and the South, a prose poem full of lyrical dexterity, Trethewey’s latest book is like all of her others: a master study of the self. If, as Zora ...