Author: Toni Morrison [Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison]
Links:
-WIKIPEDIA: Toni Morrison -VIDEO INDEX: "toni morrison" (YouTube) - - - -ESSAY: Toni Morrison on What Flannery O’Connor’s Short Fiction Reveals About Race in America: Considering the Role of Blackness and Black Bodies in the American Literary Canon (Toni Morrison, February 3, 2026, LitHub) -VIDEO: Toni Morrison on language, evil and 'the white gaze' (Cornell University, Mar 18, 2013) - - - - - - - -INTERVIEW: Toni Morrison on Craft, Inspiration, and the Time She Met Obama: Sarah Ladipo Manyika Talks to an American Literary Icon (Sarah Ladipo Manyika, February 2, 2023, LitHub) -PODCAST: The Truth of Toni Morrison (Critics at Large, 2/19/26, The New yorker) -PODCAST: THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: Toni Morrison's Paradise: the language God spoke in (John Pistelli, Dec 12, 2025, Grand Hotel Abyss) -PODCAST: Namwali Serpell's 'On Morrison': Novelist and critic Namwali Serpell joins the podcast to discuss her latest book, 'On Morrison. ' (LARB Radio Hour, February 20, 2026) -PODCAST: Don’t Make a Saint Out of Toni Morrison: It’s a disservice — to her and to us. (Hosted by Wesley Morris, Featuring Parul Sehgal and Sasha Weiss, Feb. 26, 2026, NY Times: Cannonball) - - - - - -ESSAY: Toni Morrison: The Life of a Literary Giant (Bayan Atari, Jul 5, 2022, The Dig) -REVIEW ESSAY: The Genius of Toni Morrison’s Only Short Story: In the extraordinary “Recitatif,” Morrison withholds crucial details of racial identity, making the reader the subject of her experiment. (Zadie Smith, January 23, 2022, The new Yorker) -ESSAY: Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” Showed Me How Race and Gender Are Intertwined (KORITHA MITCHELL, 11/10/20, Electric Lit) -ESSAY: How Toni Morrison’s characters modeled womanhood and confinement in their dress: How people dress – their bodies, their communities, their houses – mattered a great deal to the Nobel prize winner (Tarisai Ngangura, 25 Jan 2025, The Guardian) -ESSAY: Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison and the Power of Ambiguity: "Beloved reflects a deep ambivalence about revelation, specifically about the use of language to reveal." (Namwali Serpell, February 20, 2026, LitHub) -PODCAST: Namwali Serpell's 'On Morrison': Novelist and critic Namwali Serpell joins the podcast to discuss her latest book, 'On Morrison. ' (LARB Radio Hour, February 20, 2026) - - - - - -REVIEW: Exploring the Undeniable Africanistic Presence in the American Literary Canon: Toni Morrison’s “Language as Liberation” (Molly B. Nash, 2/09/26, Chicago Review of Books) -REVIEW: On Morrison by Namwali Serpell review – a landmark appraisal of the great novelist’s work: Serpell leaves no stone unturned in her deep and enriching portrait of the Nobel laureate’s oeuvre (Laila Lalami, 18 Feb 2026, The Guardian) - - - - Beloved (1987) - Toni Morrison (2/18/1931
-8/05/2019) (Grade:F) Jazz (1992) - Toni Morrison (2/18/1931
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