Kim Dingle 'Black Girl Dragging White Girl' (1992) oil and charcoal on canvas, 72 in. × 60 in. Publishing Recitatif in book form elevates it from anthology entry to its own masterpiece, like a small ...

Toni Morrison spoke often about the incoherence of race. “When you know somebody’s race, what do you know? Virtually nothing,” Morrison mused in one such instance during a “60 Minutes” interview in ...

“Recitatif,” Toni Morrison’s rare short story re-released as a stand-alone book on Feb. 1, is a brief and brilliant literary experiment. The story of the book is short and simple: two girls, Twyla ...

It’s a term I invented, while watching the late, great Toni Morrison masterfully take down her critics: “The Morrisonian Moment.” My favorite of these instances took place during a 1998 interview with ...

I first became acquainted with the work of Toni Morrison in college. Two of her books were required readings in my Honors program, “Sula” and “Beloved.” When her short story “Recitatif” came across my ...

Toni Morrison — the late author and Nobel laureate whose work focused on Black life and culture — published 11 acclaimed novels, several essay collections, about half a dozen children's books and just ...