The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the largest repositories of Black history in the country ...

Across three decades of democracy, South Africa has - like many places undergoing complex and uneven social change - seen an outpouring of remarkable nonfiction. The Interpreters is a new book that ...

The Joker has had plenty of origin stories over the years, but while he shouldn't have just one, these are the three best.

Word on the street is that folks believe that romance and yearning are dead. But those of us who read Black romance novels ...

Stonewall Book Award Winner, “ The Black Flamingo ” was voted by Time Magazine as a Best YA Book Of All Time. The book tells ...

The winning book, the first collection of short stories to be awarded the prize, was announced by author Max Porter ... Prize has promoted the world’s best writing in translation.” ...

Okri believes the short story form particularly suits African writers, partly because of its affinity with oral traditions. “[It is a form that] best reveals the interior landscape of a place and ...

Knopf, Buckrider Books) Five Canadian authors are shortlisted for the 2024 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. The $10,000 award is given out annually to the year's best first collection of short fiction.

Her picks including a book-to-movie adaptation and a collection of short stories from an author she calls a ... commentator and his coming of age as a Black gay man in Milwaukee.

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) became one of those writers, authoring acclaimed novels, short stories, and plays. Hurston’s stories were recognized for depicting African American life in the ...

That's when I know it's time to look for a great short story. It takes a whole lot ... by one of the 20th century’s greatest Black thinkers, writers, and activists, but it is held in high ...