Toni Morrison’s Beloved is a devastating work of historical fantasy inspired by the real life story of Margaret Garner, enslaved woman who killed her own daughter in order to free her from a life of ...

I was never a gangster, I never sold drugs, I never carried a gun... I worked every day since the age of fifteen. I knew my virtues couldn't save me.

Welcome mats bearing the legend “difficult” and “allusive” are the ones often placed by critics at the door of T. S. Eliot’s ...

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Poems examining dimensions of diaspora, from a historical sense that “your body is the evidence of its absence” to contemporary realisation that “our mercy comes with caveats”.

In 1961, Italian artist Piero Manzoni took conceptual art to its most extreme conclusion. He literally canned his own excrement and sold it as artwork. Each of the 90 small tin cans was labeled ...