To celebrate the 30th edition of the L.A. Times Festival of Books, we asked authors, editors, critics and scholars to select ...

Smith’s writing asks the question again and again. “every day is a funeral & a miracle,” one of the works in this collection announces with the confidence of a proverb. For the Black ...

She received the Sage Hill Writing award for Black Excellence and is a grantee of the Canada Council of the Arts. The poetry collection Myth shows how myths ... professor who has published five ...

Narrowing down the best shows ... She also writes in a freelance capacity for a number of publications such as GamesRadar and Total Film, and is the co-host for the Fade to Black Podcast.

James Joyce completed his first book ... man, and the essence of that myth is that the workings of his mind are beyond the reach not only of most mortals but even of most physicists. As with many ...

Anyone—white or black ... best hope for the South’s lily-white cause. But in 1869, Nathan Forrest himself ordered the Klan to disband. As University of Florida Professor David Chalmers writes ...

Figures like Du Bois, Hurston, and Baldwin stitched freedom into fabric—not out of vanity but vision. To revisit their style ...

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The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

I was particularly struck by the idea in Laura Spinney’s article that some folk myths may date back as far as 60,000 years when, it is believed, a few Homo sapiens individuals made their way out ...