Recently, Lisa Lucas, director of the National Book Foundation, spoke with Time about being both the first woman and first black person to hold this office, the role of literature… Read more »

  During recent visits to three different bookstores, National Book Award finalist and MacArthur “genius” Claudia Rankine was met with confusion when she sought recommendations for “books on whiteness.” “You… Read more »

“I’m going to show you. I’m going to make you all proud.” Those are the words Terence Crutcher texted his twin sister Tiffany a few weeks ago about his recent enrollment at a… Read more »

As the people of the Twin Cities grapple with the police shooting of Philandro Castile outside of St. Paul, together with the shootings in Baton Rouge and Dallas, some seem to… Read more »

Have you seen the beautiful images of the woman sitting and reading a book directly behind Donald Trump during one of his—presumably—angry and racist rallies? In case you missed it, the… Read more »

 If winning the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry and being a finalist for the very same award for criticism didn’t convince you that Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric… Read more »