“Recitatif,” Toni Morrison’s rare short story re-released as a stand-alone book on Feb. 1, is a brief and brilliant literary experiment. The story of the book is short and simple: two girls, Twyla ...

Toni Morrison spoke often about the incoherence of race. “When you know somebody’s race, what do you know? Virtually nothing,” Morrison mused in one such instance during a “60 Minutes” interview in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — To much of the world the late Toni Morrison was a novelist, celebrated for such classics as “Beloved,” “Song of Solomon” and “The Bluest Eye.” But the Nobel laureate did not confine ...

Toni Morrison's only short story, "Recitatif," has just been published posthumously as a stand-alone volume. (Mitsu Yasukawa / ftt) “The fact that there is only one Morrison short story,” Smith writes ...

Kim Dingle 'Black Girl Dragging White Girl' (1992) oil and charcoal on canvas, 72 in. × 60 in. Publishing Recitatif in book form elevates it from anthology entry to its own masterpiece, like a small ...

Toni Morrison — the late author and Nobel laureate whose work focused on Black life and culture — published 11 acclaimed novels, several essay collections, about half a dozen children's books and just ...

I first became acquainted with the work of Toni Morrison in college. Two of her books were required readings in my Honors program, “Sula” and “Beloved.” When her short story “Recitatif” came across my ...

Two little girls meet in a children’s shelter sometime in the 1950s. They spend four months as roommates there and then meet again randomly as they grow up. One girl is Black, the other is white, but ...

To much of the world the late Toni Morrison was a novelist, celebrated for such classics as Beloved, Song of Solomon and The Bluest Eye. But the Nobel laureate did not confine herself to one kind of ...