The Seer: Toni Morrison Among the Ruins

From an acclaimed scholar of Toni Morrison, an intimate and searching account of the life and the art of one of our greatest and most prophetic writers

Few critics have mapped the terrain of black American literature and culture with the range, rigor, and moral seriousness of Farah Jasmine Griffin. Now she brings her full intellectual force to bear—offering a gem of literary compression that captures the essence of an extraordinary life journey, the indelible work it produced, and the lesson...