Articles of Note

Toni Morrison, whose work enlarged the American imagination in ways we are only beginning to understand, is dead. She was 88… Vinson Cunningham Dwight Garner The Paris Review Washington Post Hannah GiorgisTracy K. Smith... Wesley Morris... Ron Charles... Doreen St. Félix... Troy Patterson... Kevin Brown... Hilton Als... Roxane Gay... Michelle Obama and others...... more »


New Books

The challenge facing any biographer of Frederick Douglass: Work your way behind the self-made public hero of the autobiographies and find the private man... more »


Essays & Opinions

H. G. Wells, diviner of the future. The art of prediction is difficult, he determined, and thus warrants an academic solution: “Professors of Foresight”... more »