It is clear from Morrison’s dedication (“Sixty Million and more”) that she intends to embrace the social document potential of the novel, as, indeed, any novel that treats injustice and its effects must do. This acceptance of the novel’s power Read More …
Toni Morrison’s Jazz is a simply titled novel, but this simplicity belies the complexity of the narrative structure to which the word “jazz” alludes. Toni Morrison’s novel “Jazz” is experimental in that it challenges the conventions of the American canonical Read More …
Not since her fellow Nobel laureate William Faulkner has a writer populated a few acres with so much richness and desolation. Toni Morrison’s new novel traces the history of two extraordinary communities, a town of intransigents and a house of Read More …
Nobel Prize winner, Princeton professor, Oprah Book Club best-seller – Toni Morrison long ago reached that peak of literary veneration at which her regal, high-priestess face alone is sufficient adornment for the covers of her books. No less a literary Read More …
When Florens, the central figure of Toni Morrison’s new novel, asks on the first page “Can you read?”, she is not inquiring about any simple kind of literacy. She means, can you read the nature of the world? Do you Read More …
Home is the tenth novel by the American author Toni Morrison, originally published in 2012 by Alfred A. Knopf. It tells the story of Frank Money, a 24-year-old African-American veteran of the Korean War, and his journey home “a year Read More …
The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, was the first novel written by author Toni Morrison. Morrison was an African-American novelist, Pulitzer, and Nobel Prize winner whose works are praised for addressing the harsh consequences of racism in the US. The Read More …
Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen. It was published at the end of 1817, six months after her death. The story concerns Anne Elliot, a young Englishwoman of 27 years, whose family is moving to lower Read More …
Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen’s novels to be completed for publication, in 1803. However, it was not published until after her death in 1817, along with another novel of hers, Persuasion. Northanger Abbey is a satire of Read More …
There’s never a dull moment in Georgia with Karin Slaughter on the literary rampage. In her newest book, “The Last Widow,” the popular thriller writer lays out her customary spread of clinically observed, bloody mayhem. I lost count of the Read More …