I dwell in Possibility A fairer house than Prose, More numerous of windows, Superior of doors. Of chambers as the cedars— Impregnable of eye; And for an everlasting roof ...

These books showcase the most memorable of these detectives, ready to travel down the meanest streets to root out the darkest truths. When private-eye stories first started appearing in pulp ...

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison’s first novel, was published in 1970. Set in Lorain, Ohio — where Morrison herself was born — the book tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old ...