How It Looks From Here

Beloved (Part 2). The sixth session of the 6-part Video Talk Series entitled 'Toni Morrison's Fiction'

Beloved (Part 1). The fifth session of the 6-part Video Talk Series entitled 'Toni Morrison's Fiction'

Song of Solomon (Part 2). The fourth session of the 6-part Video Talk Series titled 'Toni Morrison's Fiction'

Song of Solomon (Part 1). The third session of the 6-part Video Talk Series titled 'Toni Morrison's Fiction'

Session Two: Sula. The second session of the 6-part Video Talk Series titled 'Toni Morrison's Fiction'

Session One: The Bluest Eye. The first session of the 6-part Video Talk Series titled 'Toni Morrison's Fiction'

Read an excerpt below: “My title suggests something awry at our human core. The opening chapter of the same title (a phrase from the...

Read an excerpt below: None of these chapters scrupulously respects chronological order (although my narrative does...

Read an excerpt below: What is at stake when a group of major modernist writers centers their fiction on unknowing? Decades of...

Read an excerpt below: Moving back and forth among Franzen’s essays and novels, I propose to chart a single writer’s odyssey. In so...

Read an excerpt below: Let’s begin by acknowledging that Simply Faulkner does not imply a simple Faulkner. The word “simply” runs the...

Read an excerpt below: Abiding commitment to a writer may continue indefinitely, yet styles of interpretation change—sometimes...

Read an excerpt below: When, as a sophomore in college, I first came into contact with the work of Henry James, I chanced to read him at...

Read an excerpt below: Semantics and desire, signification and force, cultural value and natural impulse: the interplay of these paired...

Read an excerpt below: “What else but love?” Guitar makes this answer to Milkman (in Morrison’s Song of Solomon), when he identifies the...