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The third of Bill Marx’s free workshop series tackles the hard realities of being a reviewer. How to deal with “no,” how to find places to submit your reviews, and how to keep writing throughout...

Celebrated painter and placemaker receives $100,000 prize

True confessions, this reviewer is a super fan of Naomi Hirahara, the brilliant, always relevant author of complex mysteries as well as nonfiction, beginning with Summer of the Big Bachi (2004), the first...

Tobias Carroll reads more books in translation than anyone we know. This month, he recommends six exciting new titles from around the world.

Editor, Ahmad Wright; Contributing Editors, Dera R. Williams and Rochelle Spencer

This quarterly interdisciplinary journal of the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University seeks to publish the best imaginative, theoretical, and empirical Blac...

Both political parties could learn from the radical evangelical faith that shaped Carter's life of service.

The National Book Critics Circle announced the winners of their prestigious literary award during their annual ceremony on March 20. Founded in 1974, the NBCC, made up of over 800 editors and critics ...

The reimagined green space has become a beacon of education and empowerment in Central Harlem.