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Imani Perry finds room to improvise, to think on the page in what feels like real time. Her work walks a line between ethnography and history.

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A new ecosystem of publishers, bookstores, literary magazines and festivals is promoting African writers and changing the ...

Altadena, a historically Black community long regarded as a safe haven and a symbol of prosperity, was ravaged in the Los Angeles wildfires.

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RaMell Ross’s magisterial adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, pointedly sets up its central ...

The international laws against genocide were deliberately crafted to prevent the US from being held accountable for its ...

Thirty years on from Forrest Gump, unnerving de-aged versions of Robin Wright and Tom Hanks have reunited for Robert Zemeckis’ slow, saccharine experiment, which observes centuries of activity from ...

From self-improvement tips to practical activism to escapist romance, WBUR literature writer Katherine Ouellette has a ...