Toni Morrison

88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress

2012-07-04 16:36:52

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Daum: Really? First gay president?

2012-06-14 00:00:00

It's been a month since President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage and was declared, on the cover of Newsweek, "the first gay president." That's an eternity in politics, but Obama's swing through California last week, which included a...

Review: 'Home' by Toni Morrison feels distant

2012-05-06 00:00:00

Home A Novel Toni Morrison Alfred A. Knopf: 148 pp., $24 I've long admired Toni Morrison as a moral visionary, but her fiction, not so much. Of her nine novels, three — "Song of Solomon" (1977), "Beloved" (1987) and 2008's "A Mercy" —...

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On Sunday: Lyndon Johnson, Toni Morrison and the history of cookbooks

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2012-03-16 16:36:11

A deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding his manhood and his home. Frank Money, an angry and self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, finds himself back in racist America after enduring trauma on the front lines that has left him wounded physically and emotionally.

2012-02-14 17:10:00

The collaboration among director Peter Sellars, the African musician Rokia Traore and novelist Toni Morrison in "Desdemona," at Berkeley, turned the afterlife of Othello and Desdemona into a true transmigration of souls. Pictured: Tina Benko.

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Author and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison , left, with humorist Fran Lebowitz.

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