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Pulitzer Prize-winner opens at Goodman In a Tehran school, four Iranian adults prepare to take the English language exam that could dictate the next chapter of their lives in “English,” Sanaz...

Part one of "Black and Unhoused" details how affordable housing in Chicago remains elusive for Black people generations later.

Delve into the timeless world of classics with these top classic books. See the literary masterpieces that have left an indelible mark on literature.

Today's anxiety about ‘authenticity’ and racial stereotypes comes to the fore in the satire American Fiction. But it’s nothing new

Last fall, a man incarcerated at an Ulster County prison asked a books-to-prisons program to send him Black literature. Books Beyond Bars responded with a copy

Last fall, a man incarcerated at an Ulster County prison asked a books-to-prisons program to send him Black literature. Books Beyond Bars responded with a copy of “Native Son”, Richard

Richard Wright, novelist and short-story writer who was among the first African American writers to protest white treatment of Blacks, notably in his novel Native Son (1940) and his autobiography, Black Boy (1945). He inaugurated the tradition of protest explored by other Black writers after World War II.

Texas's Defiance Press publishes conservative broadsides that border on fiction. But it’s the company’s actual novels that are truly strange.

Native Son, novel by Richard Wright, published in 1940. The novel addresses the issue of white American society’s responsibility for the repression of blacks. The plot charts the decline of Bigger Thomas, a young African American imprisoned for two murders—the accidental smothering of his white

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