Toni Morrison

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The battle of the literary endorsements The battle of the literary endorsements
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?
Toni Morrison endorses Obama Toni Morrison endorses Obama
The Illinois senator's latest high-profile ally is also the author who once proclaimed Bill Clinton America's first black president.
What to Read What to Read
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.
I'd prefer not to I'd prefer not to
My list includes Toni Morrison, Henry James, Faulkner and Beckett. Why are there some great writers we just cannot read?
Bill Clinton isn't black! Bill Clinton isn't black!
It's time to bury the ridiculous and insulting notion that the former president is anything but white.
The Nader letters
Bianca Jagger, Ani DiFranco, Gloria Steinem, Toni Morrison, Sean Wilentz, Tom Laughlin and other pro- and anti-Nader folks wage e-mail combat.
Contemporary fiction: The death of the Red-Hot Center
By Laura Miller
Pop stardom vs. deathless prose
Is Stephen King as important as Toni Morrison? Is Danielle Steel our Dickens? It all depends on how you measure.
The trickster president
Clinton's enemies have made him a culture hero.
British witch casts a spell on Oprah
Will magic help her score a spot on the show?
Bill Bradley: The next black president?
His campaign purports to make race a central issue, but so far it's more style than substance.
Unrequired reading
Publishing jobs turn the pleasure of reading into a chore. Here's what editors read in their fantasies.
Other pasts, other places
The author of "Possession" recommends five unforgettable historical novels.
Every book is a lesbian book
The author of "Bastard out of Carolina" recalls how her youthful imagination found Sapphists under the most unlikely covers.
Orange Prize short-list announced
North-American writers dominate a British literary award.
The mysteries of Bill Clinton
Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcma Marquez compares the president's fate to that of Hester Prynne.
The mysteries of Bill Clinton
Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez compares the president's fate to that of Hester Prynne.
The trickster president
Clinton's enemies have made him a culture hero.
The bull in the black-intelligentsia china shop
He calls Toni Morrison a fraud, afrocentrists "lost" and gangsta rappers "the scum of the Earth," but actually, critic Stanley Crouch is a sweetheart.
What if it were President Packwood?
Liberals must face up to their hypocrisy in backing a president who lied under oath in a sexual harassment lawsuit.
God save the president?
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.
It's all about parties -- and the bottom line
Every year the Radcliffe Publishing Course inducts another group of recent graduates into the glamour and drudgery of publishing.
Beloved
Jonathan Demme panders to Toni Morrison's guilt mongering in his brutal adaptation of 'Beloved'.
Clinton's amen chorus
African-American support for the president is being cynically manipulated by liberals who play to blacks' sense of victimization.
Femme fatale
President Clinton's just a girl who can't say no.
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