Toni Morrison

Culture Wars: The Nation Hosts A Salon

Erica Abeel | Posted 11.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Vampire Frenzy, Walter Mosley, Toni Morrison, Wally Shawn, Entertainment, Progressives, Tony Kushner, Nation Magazine Salon, Obama, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Media News
Erica Abeel

The Nation magazine recently held a "Salon" to explore the question, What Will Become of Our Culture? Too bad it didn't occur during the current New Moon juggernaut.

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Banned Books Week: Still Needed in the U.S.

Joan E. Bertin | Posted 11.28.2009 | Media

Read More: And Tango Makes Three, Huckleberry Finn, Toni Morrison, Banned Books, Banned Books Week, Media News
Joan E. Bertin

What we oppose is the effort of one parent or a group of parents to make decisions about what other people's children may read.

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Pablo Fanque's Fair or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love New York

Christian Nwachukwu, Jr. | Posted 11.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Friendship, HIV/AIDS, Democratic Primary, New York City, New York, Toni Morrison, Dan Brown the Lost Symbol, Michael Bloomberg, Health Care, New York News
Christian Nwachukwu, Jr.

Then I went down again and emerged in the mouth of Columbus Circle, the fall air whistling. I always try to stop at the Borders there, to see what they're doing with their books and if retail bookstores will survive.

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Naming, and Why It Matters

Deborah Jiang Stein | Posted 10.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Identity, Beloved, Ai Aeiwei, Names, Beijing, Belonging, China, Toni Morrison, Adoption, Living News
Deborah Jiang Stein

With two names in my pocket, I've come to hold vast curiosity about naming and how our lives are impacted by what people call us. (Yes, even the curse words we've been called.)

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Books, Books and More Books, or Tote That Bookbag

David Finkle | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Toni Morrison, BookExpo America, Publishing Houses, Publishing, Mavis Gallant, Books, Literature, Joan Wickersham, Living News
David Finkle

I plucked and pillaged a number of books but I consumed the Hershey kisses, apples and candy canes on the spot.

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The Obama Imprint

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: “a Mercy”, Cornel West, Toni Morrison, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Reverend Al Sharpton, Michael Eric Dyson, Civil Rights, Obama, Politics News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

What Obama has done is so extraordinary that it calls into question the entire project of black advocates and intellectuals preoccupied by the question of racism.

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Serena: This Fall's Most Dangerous Novel

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Wall Street Crash, Appalachia, Environmental Movement, Wall Street Crisis, Great American Novel, Novels, American Literature, Logging, Green Living, Thomas Wolfe, Ron Rash, Sarah Palin, North Carolina, Timber, Fiction, Toni Morrison, Dorothy Allison, Media News
Jeff Biggers

As unforgettable as a haunting mountain ballad, Serena unfolds like a brilliantly conceived cautionary tale and mediation on the dark corners of unbridled lust to profit at any cost.

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New Jersey Inducts First 15 Into State's Hall Of Fame

AP | DANIELA FLORES | Posted 05.12.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: New Jersey Hall of Fame, Bruce Springsteen, Yogi Bera, Frank Sinatra, Toni Morrison, Entertainment News

TRENTON, N.J. — Fifteen prominent New Jerseyans were inducted into the state's new Hall of Fame on Sunday night _ even though the actual hall do...

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