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‘MISTER AFFABLE DAD’

He’s Running as a Cleaned-Up Trump—Dems Are Running Scared

The governor’s race in Virginia was supposed to be a referendum on Trump and an easy win for Democrats. But it’s become a referendum on Biden—and a neck-and-neck race.

Eleanor Clift

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BAD BOOKS

GOP Candidate Puts Up Ad With Mom Who Tried to Ban ‘Beloved’

The Virginia mom tried to get Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize winner banned from classrooms in 2013.

Jamie Ross

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‘FRED ASTAIRE OF EDITING’

Sonny Mehta, Head of Knopf Book Imprint, Dead at 77

Credited with signing authors from Toni Morrison to Cormac McCarthy and commissioning bestsellers that included “Fifty Shades of Grey” and “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.”

Barbie Latza Nadeau

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OUR UNIVERSAL HUMANITY

Toni Morrison Showed Me That I’m Not Alone

It was her first, “The Bluest Eye,” daunting and prescient, that hinted at the Nobelist’s genius for capturing the universal desire and right to be seen and loved for who we are.

M. Yvonne Taylor

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BELOVED

Nobel Prize-Winning Author Toni Morrison Dies at 88

One of the greatest writers of the 20th century passed away Monday.

Olivia Messer

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Disappointing

Toni Morrison Spins a Lame Fairy Tale

America’s only living Nobel prize winning author revisits some familiar themes in her latest novel, but too often she fails to meet her own exacting standards.

Tom LeClair

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Democracy!

Fringe Factor: Gays Are Like 12 Year Olds

Gay couples should be treated like children under the law and more clever ideas from our fearless political leaders.

Caitlin Dickson

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Lecture on Literature

The Tiger Writer

<p>When Gish Jen delivered the Massey lectures in American history at Harvard in 2012—now published as <i><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Writing-Interdependent-Lectures-Civilization/dp/0674072839/">Tiger Writing</a></i>—the daughter of Chinese immigrants examined the East-West divide, not only in child-rearing but in fiction writing. Almost every novelist has had to contend with the question of “what is fiction,” and Jen picks her favorite lectures on writing, from Nabokov’s attention to detail, to a meditation on Edwidge Danticat’s immigrant experience, to Toni Morrison’s own Massey lecture.</p>

Gish Jen

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25th Anniversary

Teaching Toni Morrison

<p>It’s <a href="http://bannedbooksweek.org/" target="_blank">banned books week</a>, and also the 25th anniversary of the publication of Toni Morrison’s <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Beloved-Everymans-Library-Toni-Morrison/dp/0307264882/" target="_blank">Beloved</a></i>, a classic that explores the legacy of slavery not with reductive moralizing but with psychological and narrative depth and complexity. But its frankness with race, violence and sex has made it a controversial choice in school curricula. Anna Clark looks at how the seminal novel is being taught to students.</p>

Anna Clark

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Literary Lights Fête Mailer

Don DeLillo, Joan Didion, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, and many more honored Norman Mailer’s memory Tuesday night with the first annual gala celebrating his writers’ colony. VIEW OUR GALLERY.

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Ashley Dupre on 20/20 and other TV Highlights

TRL goes dark, Arianna Huffington (maybe) subs for Maddow, and Diane Sawyer interviews Ashley Dupre, the prostitute at the center of the Spitzer scandal.

Nicole Ankowski

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