Zora Neale Hurston

88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress

2012-07-04 16:36:52

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This Sunday: Van Vechten's Renaissance, Watergate, Szymborska and more

2012-02-17 21:35:55

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The Bookish Life: Weaving memories into handmade books

2011-08-14 00:00:00

I make books. That's what I do. I made my first book about 17 years ago, a feat I consider a miracle. On a whim I took a class on making cased-in books with hard spines, and when I looked at the finished product I was astounded, as if I'd made a car with...

Stetson Kennedy dies at 94; writer exposed the KKK

2011-08-28 00:00:00

Author and folklorist Stetson Kennedy, who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan six decades ago and exposed its secrets but decades later was criticized for appearing to exaggerate his exploits, died Saturday at a medical center near St. Augustine, Fla. He was...

Bookstore of the week: Brand Bookshop

2011-01-06 16:34:02

Book review: 'The Warmth of Other Suns' by Isabel Wilkerson

2010-09-19 00:00:00

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson Random House: 622 pp, $30 It was an all-too-familiar dispatch from a particular time and place. The Clarks, a young black family of four, were trying to improve...

'Changing My Mind' by Zadie Smith

2009-11-15 00:00:00

Changing My Mind Occasional Essays Zadie Smith The Penguin Press: 306 pp., $26.95 Reviewing Zadie Smith's 2001 debut, "White Teeth," the critic James Wood lumped the blazing hot young British writer with no less than Salman Rushdie, David Foster...

'A New Literary History of America' by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors

2009-10-04 00:00:00

Daunting as it may be to assemble a centuries-spanning assessment of any country, even one with a fairly linear march through history, how does one approach a culture as unstable, contradictory and contested as ours? Where do you start? Where do you stop?...

Literary Haiti

2010-01-18 16:33:35

Dance review: Alvin Ailey at the Orange County Performing Arts Center

2010-03-03 16:32:52

Hart-felt statements about violence against women

2010-02-19 16:34:13

Obama's gospel mistake

2007-10-31 00:00:00

Politics have provided gay Americans like myself with no end of schadenfreude in recent years, what with the antics of Mark Foley, Larry Craig and other I'm-not-gay Republicans. But last weekend, a competing Democratic farce debuted: Barack Obama's...

Students from Victory Prep Christian Academy dance in the light rains on Kennedy Blvd. They are dancing to historic Motown hits. The first day of the Zora Neale Hurston festival in Eatonville started with sprinkles on the many school kids who came to learn about black heritage and the great writer.

2012-01-28 00:00:00

an adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston 's literary classic starring Academy Award�-winning actress Halle Berry and Michael Ealy . Based on the classic by author Zora Neale Hurston, the film depicts the timeless, lyrical and passionate story of a beautiful and resilient woman's quest for love, sensual

2011-05-12 14:29:51

People look at the "Jump at the Sun: Zora Neale Hurston and Her Eatonville Roots" Museum Exhibit during the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities in Eatonville that ends this weekend with its popular street fair, on Saturday, January 30, 2010. The event has gained national and

2010-01-30 00:00:00