She recounts her experience of growing up black and poor in rural Mississippi in Reagan’s 1980s and the early 21st century, ...

The author's books are set in the poor, black Mississippi community where she grew up, a place where, she says, "the past bears very heavily on... Writing Mississippi: Jesmyn Ward Salvages Stories Of ...

In this riveting memoir of the ghosts that haunt her hometown in Mississippi, two-time novelist and National Book Award–winner Ward (Salvage the Bones) writes intimately about the pall of blighted ...

This literary pilgrimage through Oxford, Jackson, and Natchez reveals the homes, bookstores, and landscapes that shaped generations of American authors.

Colson Whitehead’s Harlem trilogy turns away from the pessimism of his recent novels to offer a more hopeful vision for Black ...

Jesmyn Ward is the author of several books, including Sing, Unburied, Sing, which won the National Book Award in 2017. An English professor at Tulane University, she is a 2017 MacArthur Fellow. Ava ...

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The president of PEN America has resigned over an article published by the organization that blames discrimination against ...

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Although praised for its themes of justice, morality, and racial relations, To Kill a Mockingbird is an outdated and often ...

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