For the first time in a collector's boxed set, the definitive three-volume Library of America James Baldwin edition gathering all his essential writings, including the collected essays and complete fiction.

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Carl Plasa presents and analyses writings on Morrison’s novel, beginning with a discussion of the novel’s reception and a consideration of selected interviews with Morrison in the years following publication.

Many people consider Morrison’s novels difficult to read. Most of her readers have at least one book on their shelves that they couldn’t finish or, when they did finish one…

A version of Aesop’s Fables finds two friends, a grasshopper and an ant, who each spend their time differently preparing for winter in a tale of friendship, betrayal, and survival.

Morrison describes herself as a black woman novelist, and all her novels deal with African American characters and communities. This is the only book-length study to discuss all of Morrison’s…

Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics situates Toni Morrison as a writer who writes about writing as much as about racialized, engendered, and sexualized African American, and therefore American, experience.

Toni Morrison’s Beloved: Origins explores the multifarious ways in which memory works to conserve a legacy of the ancient past. The vestiges of both Classical Greek and Ancient Egyptian belief…

The most substantial collection of critical essays on Morrison to appear since her death in mid-2019, this book contains previously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her…