Few characters in modern literature embody the weight of history as profoundly as Sethe, the tragic heroine of Toni Morrison’s 'Beloved'. Born into slavery and driven by a mother’s desperate love, ...

In the final instalment of her series on the novel, Jane Smiley on why Toni Morrison’s Beloved - a sensational story of slavery and racism in America - has endured It is clear from Morrison's ...

Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Beloved” is the kind of book that defies filming, full of fragmented thoughts and memories, rough expressionistic poetry and abruptly shifting viewpoints.

In awe of her subtle imagery and slight nods to the Black female psyche, my 14-year-old self clung to Toni Morrison’s depictions of a misunderstood femininity, from blue eyes to bare bellies. This ...

The novel is an elegant, eloquent encapsulation of antebellum and postbellum America, in which Morrison problematises ideas about memory and forgetting, history and trauma. The novel takes its subtext ...

Just in time for Christmas, NBC is airing a tale about a lonely and isolated person whose world is turned upside down following visits by a ghost from the past. After a series of troubling and ...

'Beloved.' Title significance: The title "Beloved" serves as a reference to several aspects of the story. "Beloved" is the name given to the ghostly, mysterious young woman who appears at 124 ...

“Beloved” is the movie that couldn’t be made, and was, about people who couldn’t go on, and did. Admirers of “Beloved,” Toni Morrison’s novel about a former slave trying to rebuild her life during ...

NMAFRU copy 39088008625139 signed by author. NMAFRU copy 39088008625139 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, From the Ellis B. Haizlip Collection. ANAC copy 39088010364487 has bookplate: ...

I’ve been reading about some of my favorite books in the press lately. “Beloved” and “The Bluest Eye,” two classics from the late Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. The August Wilson play “Fences.” The ...