Toni Morrison
Crypto-Religious Art in an Explicit Age
Is it the salve we need?
Notes From the Cosmic Sea
James K.A. Smith lays out a warm, capacious definition of mystery, one that feels awestruck and optimistic.
Variations on Beowulf, Feminist and Christian
“Why not Face / the Boss, and at Death Seek / Salves, not Scars?”
On Hula Hooping, First Grade Bullies, and Living Language: Mere Words and the Word
Oscar Wilde and Toni Morrison on the Power of Words
Moral Ground Must Be Shored Up By Mercy: In Memory of Toni Morrison
“She is a friend of my mind… The pieces I am, she gather them and […]
The Problem with Paradise (According to Toni Morrison)
Toni Morrison’s Paradise (1997) begins with a startling act of violence, then, in a landscape […]
Her Guilt Sanctified Us: Love and Exchange in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye
A beautiful meditation from Michael Allen on Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye: “And the years […]








