The Bottom Line: In A Mercy, Toni Morrison takes a fresh look at familiar themes: mothers and daughters, self-destructive desire, and as always, the burdens of freedom. I was surprised by how often, during my reading of Toni Morrison’s A Mercy,my thoughts turned to another novel – The Known World,(2004) by Edward P. Jones. Both [...]
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19 Sep
Obama’s Bookshelf
Wow, I just have to share this report on The Root by Keith Josef Adkins about “Obama and His Literary Tastes.” It’s truly a breath of fresh air amidst all the non-stop election madness.
30 Aug
Finding The Bottom; or, What We’re All About
In the prologue of Toni Morrison’s 1973 novel, Sula, the narrator describes how a small black neighborhood in the hills of Medallion, Ohio came to be known as the Bottom. It began cruelly, we are told, as a “nigger joke” set during slavery. When the slave in the story asks his master for the bottom [...]
