"I taught Amy Tan for years, but decided I needed to do better," Hoffman said. "I needed to grow in my understanding of Asian ...

The United States is a country as rich as it is varied, with a history that is inevitably complex and a culture that influences the whole world. In these circumstances, it is not surprising to find ...

Kenechi Uzor understood that African proverb long before he first saw a lion in the flesh, 7,200 miles from his Nigerian ...

Walter Whitman Jr. was an influential American poet, essayist, and journalist, best known for his groundbreaking work Leaves ...

Norman Mailer is rightly remembered as a belligerent bigot, a man who eclipsed his own books and became his own most enduring ...

Julia Alvarez describes writing as an act of “un-selving.” What the Dominican American poet and novelist means is that ...

The ubiquity of English translations, coupled with the innumerable Latine writers who create works in English, means that you ...

Books by Louise Erdrich, Jesmyn Ward and others have interrogated the boundaries meant to contain us.

Banned Book Week highlights the surge in literature censorship. Learn about the impact on African-American stories and the ...

So begins “Small Rain,” the new novel by literary sensation Garth Greenwell. It begins with a nameless narrator having a ...

(WIB) – Banned Books Week, recognized each September, was founded by library activist Judith Krug in 1982 as a protest to the increase in censorship of literature. Krug believed that bans on books ...

The Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre ’s Latin Expressions returns this October in celebration of Latin American ...