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Morrison’s “Beloved” and Douglass’s “My Bondage and My Freedom” have been added back to the HUM syllabus this spring, as ...

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 ...

Spend this month reading Black authors, from modern favorites like Roxane Gay and Jasmine Guillory to classics like James Baldwin and Toni Morrison Lizz Schumer is the senior books editor at PEOPLE.

Spoilers for “Beloved” (1987) ahead. “Beloved” (1987) by Toni Morrison is the most transformative novel I have ever read.