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'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 ...

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 ...

“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’s ‘Recitatif‘ to hit store shelves Feb. 1 “One of the main takeaways from it (Recitatif) is that you’ll begin to think of her as someone who experimented with form. You’ll get away from ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — To much of the world, the late Toni Morrison was solely a novelist, celebrated for such classics as “Beloved,” “Song of Solomon” and “The Bluest Eye.” But the Nobel laureate, who died in ...

The late Nobel laureate and novelist was known for her examination of the Black experience. "Recitatif" is about two girls, one Black and one... Toni Morrison's only short story is available in book ...

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 ...

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 ...