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Plum Bun">Glory Edim on Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Remarkable—and Forgotten—Plum Bun

Remembering the Work of “The Crisis” Editor and Harlem Renaissance Writer

By Glory Edim | August 27, 2025

Diana Arterian on Agrippina the Younger, Writing Historical Women, and Poetry as Liberty

Diana Arterian on Agrippina the Younger, Writing Historical Women, and Poetry as Liberty

The Author of “Agrippina the Younger” in Conversation with Poets.org

By Literary Hub | June 23, 2025

The five kinds of party girls you find in literature.

The five kinds of party girls you find in literature.

(A taxonomy.)

By Brittany Allen | March 31, 2025

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

The Author of “Counterculture” in Conversation with Aaron Robertson

By Aaron Robertson | February 19, 2025

Home to Harlem">Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s <emHome to Harlem">

Home to Harlem">Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem

Belinda Edmondson on the Peripatetic Perspective of a Landmark Novel

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The Life of Herod the Great

The Life of Herod the Great

Zora Neale Hurston

By Lit Hub Excerpts | January 7, 2025

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Rejoice! We're getting a new Zora Neale Hurston novel.

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Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

Anthony Pinn Explores How James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Zora Neale Hurston, and Others Embraced a New Black Humanism

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“Splintered beyond recognition.” Yogita Goyal on the Difficulty of Categorizing Contemporary African American Literature

“Splintered beyond recognition.” Yogita Goyal on the Difficulty of Categorizing Contemporary African American Literature

From “The Cambridge Companion to Contemporary African American Literature”

By Yogita Goyal | May 21, 2024

Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Loneliness

Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Loneliness

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Their Eyes Were Watching God.">Read the first reviews of <emTheir Eyes Were Watching God.">

Their Eyes Were Watching God.">Read the first reviews of Their Eyes Were Watching God.

By Dan Sheehan | September 18, 2023

The Greatest Velmas of History and Fiction

The Greatest Velmas of History and Fiction

Shaenon K. Garrity Takes Roll Call, from Agatha Christie to Harriet the Spy

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Cocktails in Honor of Two Literary Greats: Virginia Woolf and Zora Neale Hurston

Cocktails in Honor of Two Literary Greats: Virginia Woolf and Zora Neale Hurston

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