My Guilty Pleasure: I Enjoy Southern Gospel Because It Hardly Makes Me Feel at All
As a consequence of growing up Black in a white world, I am comfortable feeling alienated from my own emotions
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The Challenge of Addressing Slavery in Children’s Stories
Where history has ignored the lives of Black Canadians, writers like Christopher Paul Curtis have turned painful realities into powerful narratives
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The Toughest Sentence Toni Morrison Ever Wrote
I interviewed the author in 1998. I could have listened to her forever
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Esi Edugyan Reimagines the Slave Narrative
In Washington Black, a black prodigy is trapped inside his historical era
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The Passions of Austin Clarke: 1934–2016
One of Canada’s foundational writers dies at eighty-one
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