Tag: black authors

  • Morrison’s Song of Solomon

    Song of SolomonToni Morrison Of the Morrison novels I’ve read (and I have not read them all, yet!) this is my favorite. It is an absolute work of genius, full stop. Stunning from the first page to the last. I find it hard to explain Morrison’s genius. Yes, she has incomparable technical skill – her…

  • Review: Morrison’s Sula

    SulaToni Morrison Morrison’s second novel. Like every one of her works that I have read, it’s a masterpiece. I really have nothing new to say about one of America’s greatest novelists except to say that what stuck me about Sula was how fully formed the characters are, even those whose appearances are brief, and how…