Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison have both gone public with their presidential picks. What do their overwrought odes tell us about the candidates they favor?
By Laura Miller Jan 31, 2008
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The Illinois senator's latest high-profile ally is also the author who once proclaimed Bill Clinton America's first black president.
By Alex Koppelman
January 28, 2008
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Toni Morrison's devastating new novel, Edmund White's Dickensian romp, a new novella from Steve Martin and the rest of October's best fiction.
October 28, 2003
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My list includes Toni Morrison, Henry James, Faulkner and Beckett. Why are there some great writers we just cannot read?
By Tom Bissell
May 28, 2002
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It's time to bury the ridiculous and insulting notion that the former president is anything but white.
By Jabari Asim
February 26, 2001
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Bianca Jagger, Ani DiFranco, Gloria Steinem, Toni Morrison, Sean Wilentz, Tom Laughlin and other pro- and anti-Nader folks wage e-mail combat.
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November 6, 2000
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By Laura Miller
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August 15, 2000
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Is Stephen King as important as Toni Morrison? Is Danielle Steel our Dickens? It all depends on how you measure.
By Anthony S. Brandt
March 21, 2000
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Clinton's enemies have made him a culture hero.
By Richard Goldstein
December 30, 1999
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Will magic help her score a spot on the show?
By Craig Offman
October 1, 1999
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His campaign purports to make race a central issue, but so far it's more style than substance.
By Keith Moore
August 11, 1999
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Publishing jobs turn the pleasure of reading into a chore. Here's what editors read in their fantasies.
By Ray Sawhill
July 16, 1999
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The author of "Possession" recommends five unforgettable historical novels.
By A.S. Byatt
June 21, 1999
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The author of "Bastard out of Carolina" recalls how her youthful imagination found Sapphists under the most unlikely covers.
By Dorothy Allison
June 10, 1999
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North-American writers dominate a British literary award.
By -- Craig Offman
May 11, 1999
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Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcma Marquez compares the president's fate to that of Hester Prynne.
By Gabriel Garcma Marquez
February 1, 1999
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Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez compares the president's fate to that of Hester Prynne.
By Gabriel Garcma Marquez
January 30, 1999
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Clinton's enemies have made him a culture hero.
By Richard Goldstein
January 29, 1999
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He calls Toni Morrison a fraud, afrocentrists "lost" and gangsta rappers "the scum of the Earth," but actually, critic Stanley Crouch is a sweetheart.
By Amy Alexander
January 19, 1999
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Liberals must face up to their hypocrisy in backing a president who lied under oath in a sexual harassment lawsuit.
By Andrew Ross
December 22, 1998
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An anti-impeachment gathering of New York's intellectual hotshots may not do much for the country, but at least it made them feel good about themselves.
By Jackie Stevens
December 16, 1998
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Every year the Radcliffe Publishing Course inducts another group of recent graduates into the glamour and drudgery of publishing.
By Jason Zinoman
November 23, 1998
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Jonathan Demme panders
to Toni Morrison's guilt mongering in his brutal adaptation of 'Beloved'.
By Charles Taylor
October 16, 1998
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African-American support for the president is being cynically manipulated by liberals who play to blacks' sense of victimization.
By David Horowitz
October 12, 1998
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President Clinton's just a girl who can't say no.
By Virginia Vitzthum
October 8, 1998
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