A Masterful New Book by Namwali Serpell Re-Examines Toni Morrison’s Genius

Not long after Toni Morrison died in August 2019, the novelist Elias Rodriques penned an elegy in which he asked: “What will I tell young people – how will I refer to her – who do not know who she is 20, 30, or 40 years from now? We had a Shakespeare, I would like to say. People called her Toni.” This comparison is not hyperbole or irony: as the Nobel Prize winning author of iconic books like Beloved, The Bluest Eye, and Jazz, Morrison’s oeuvre has a magnitude and depth that fewhellip; read more raquo;