The Language Lane

The inclusion of Black literary references in my guilty-pleasure crime shows continues. An old alto saxophonist, Marshall Grant (Willie...

When my students and I read Sing, Unburied, Sing, we were aware that author Jesmyn Ward had Toni Morrison’s Beloved (which one or two...

To illustrate the point of textual conversations in American literature, I had students read Toni Morrison’s Playing in the Dark:...

Frank Money, despite his name, contends with more misfortune than any of Toni Morrison’s major male characters. There is the KKK-style...