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 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 ...

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 ...

NEARLY THREE HOURS long, filled with marvels and longueurs, the poetic and the pedestrian, Jonathan Demme's adaptation of Toni Morrison's Pulitzer Prize-winning Beloved is a bold and frustratingly ...

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 ...

124 was full of spite. Sethe and her daughter Denver lived there all alone. Too scared to go out. Sethe's mother-in-law, Baby Suggs, had lived with them for 18 years but she had wisely chosen to die ...

Toni Morrison’s masterpiece told the truth about race, family, slavery and memory in the United States. Stephanie Powell Watts explores what the novel means to her – and to the world. Years ago, when ...

Excellent descriptions of trauma abound, including memoirs, but they are logical and descriptive, constrained by the conventions of straightforward narrative. But trauma itself upends the usual modes ...

As Toni Morrison’s Beloved illustrates, maternal love defies restrictions based on the intersection of race and gender, and exists beyond patriarchal rules of ownership. By Glosswitch What is a “good ...