Toni Morrison’s Definition of a Legacy
As a writer and an editor, she put humanity plainly on the page, where it would outlast her and her critics alike.

As a writer and an editor, she put humanity plainly on the page, where it would outlast her and her critics alike.
Alternatives to the medical or economic state of affairs offer hope—and danger.
When our waking thoughts get transmuted into dreams, what do we learn?
Trump’s executive orders have made it downstream to authors.
Perhaps being persuadable is overrated—at least if it means “coming to accept the unacceptable.”
Should novelists write the world as it is or as it should be?
Haley Mlotek’s new memoir finds a fresh way to talk about the dissolution of a marriage.
Two authors’ memoirs attempt to communicate intensely isolating experiences to readers.
Can any writer offer useful wisdom when ash rains over a metropolis?
Every January 1 in the Books department, we like to make an extra toast for a concurrent holiday: Public Domain Day.