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New Orleanians can’t agree on the identity of the King Cake Baby. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article

Simplified: New Orleanians cannot agree on the identity of the King Cake Baby

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4 months ago
Morrison is up there for good reason. 1.000

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Simplified: Morrison is up there for good reason

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4 months ago
I dare them — be the unorthodoxy you hope to see. 0.900

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Simplified: Be the unorthodoxy you hope to see

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Her “Beloved” chapter includes a passage on the multiple judgments among the characters of Sethe’s murder — some would say her sparing — of her infant daughter and surmises that “the reader is left wi... 0.900

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Simplified: Her “Beloved” chapter includes a passage on the multiple judgments among the characters of Sethe’s murder

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4 months ago
Knopf has just published, with notes and an introduction by the literary scholar and Princeton professor Claudia Brodsky, a new collection of Morrison’s lectures on the great books: “Language as Liber... 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Literature

Simplified: Knopf published a new collection of Morrison’s lectures titled “Language as Liberation: Reflections on the American Canon” with notes and an introduct...

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4 months ago
Stanley Crouch, in a famously dyspeptic and fairly typical heave-ho, from 1987, declaimed “Beloved” a “blackface Holocaust novel.” 1.000

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Simplified: Stanley Crouch declaimed “Beloved” a “blackface Holocaust novel” in 1987

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He could detect in her writing some Woolf, some Faulkner, and when he lost their trace in “Beloved,” the book lost him, because it ceased to obediently correspond with the traditional Western literary... 0.900

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Simplified: Bloom could detect in her writing some Woolf some Faulkner and when he lost their trace in “Beloved” the book lost him

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He went on: “She has been, I believe, victimized by the times, in trying to give the age what she feels the age demands.” 0.900

👤 The author 📋 Book Review 🏷️ Literary Analysis

Simplified: Bloom said Morrison has been victimized by the times

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4 months ago
He informed Rose that Morrison “began as a very strong writer and reached a kind of culmination in ‘Song of Solomon’,” 0.900

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Simplified: Bloom informed Rose that Morrison began as a strong writer and reached a culmination in ‘Song of Solomon’

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4 months ago
Bloom seemed most alarmed at what had, in his estimation, befallen Morrison. 0.900

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Simplified: Bloom seemed most alarmed at what had befallen Morrison

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4 months ago
In 1994, Harold Bloom held forth on Charlie Rose’s old show about his Western canon project and inveighing against Maya Angelou, Alice Walker and Morrison, disparaging the artistic merit of their work... 0.900

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Simplified: In 1994 Harold Bloom held forth on Charlie Rose’s old show about his Western canon project and disparaged the artistic merit of Maya Angelou Alice Wal...

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4 months ago
Serpell uses the occasion of “The Bluest Eye,” a book imagining the psychological blast radius of incest and rape, to wonder about an assortment of cultural maladies — censorship, identity politics ru... 0.900

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Simplified: Serpell uses the occasion of “The Bluest Eye” to wonder about cultural maladies

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4 months ago
Serpell performs mini-disquisitions on anthropological syncretism. 0.900

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Simplified: Serpell performs mini-disquisitions on anthropological syncretism

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4 months ago
She’s putting these books on the grill. 0.900

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Simplified: She is putting these books on the grill.

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4 months ago
“Over the years, through my work and experience as a literature professor and fiction writer” — of the novels “The Old Drift” and “The Furrows” — “I’ve learned a lot about the Black cultural tradition... 0.900

👤 Namwali Serpell 📋 News Article

Simplified: Serpell learned a lot about Black cultural traditions that ground her aesthetics.

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4 months ago
There are moments in the assessments of each book, up through “Paradise” — novel No. 7 — and on almost every page of the chapter devoted to “Jazz,” where I could hear a sizzle. 0.900

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Simplified: There are moments in the assessments of each book where I could hear a sizzle.

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It’s the rigor of a mind, plumbing. 0.900

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Simplified: It is the rigor of a mind.

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Her mind is alive. 0.900

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Simplified: Her mind is alive.

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4 months ago
What Serpell’s written, devised, built is “On Morrison,” a novel-by-novel treatise on, inspection of, spelunking into, playing with Morrisonian philosophy, aesthetics, craft; and she might be having t... 0.900

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Simplified: Serpell wrote “On Morrison” a novel-by-novel treatise.

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4 months ago
Each chapter in “On Morrison” feeds the novels through a single grand idea or two: comedy in “Song of Solomon,” the function of names in “Sula” and numbers in “Paradise.” 0.900

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Simplified: Each chapter in “On Morrison” feeds the novels through a single grand idea or two.

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