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As a writer and an editor, she put humanity plainly on the page, where it would outlast her and her critics alike.
Award-winning novelist Toni Morrison wrote ‘Beloved,’ ‘The Bluest Eye,’ ‘Sula,’ and many other books. Read about her teaching career, quotes, death, and more.
“Pick it up for the small-town setting, sweet romances, story of sisterhood ... or Western imperialism—writers from many cultures have taken to the genre. Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie and Haruki ...
Sorry, I don’t know where travel books are, but over there … More Chicago Than Chicago: Soon as I finished Peter Orner’s “The ...
The one time I officially lived abroad (Scotland, hardly the ends of the earth; nine months, hardly an eternity), my boyfriend sent a care package that made me cry, which had nothing to do with the ...
Get used to it: The blow for blow, tit for tat is an example of the extent that politics has permeated every level of government. And with Pritzker a possible 2028 presidential candidate punching at ...
Summer reading, if you ask me, should meander, without a plan. Pick up, put down, misplace, leave crusty with sand or warped with humidity. Fall is for rigor, winter for ...
PRITZKER’s No. 2: Gov. JB Pritzker has tapped Christian Mitchell, a former deputy governor and veteran state representative, ...