In The Bluest Eye, Morrison struggled to unite the there and not-there in the same figure: Claudia had occupied the positive pole, as it were, and Pecola, the negative. Four novels later, in Beloved, ...

What made her one of our greatest — and most dangerous — novelists was her belief that stories could contain what our minds couldn’t confront.

Pop culture loves a good pattern, and in Hollywood, grief and tragedy often come with a storyline. For example, by the late ...

Actor Peter Greene, who specialized in playing villains like the sadistic security guard Zed in "Pulp Fiction," died after he accidentally shot himself in the armpit, the New York City medical ...

As Tharpe rose higher in status during the 1940s, she was still subject to Jim Crow Laws requiring racial segregation in many ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson kept up his more than half-century-long fight for civil and human rights through his final years ...

The documentary “Trango” depicts Morrison’s attempt to become the first person to ski down another epic run: the Great Trango ...

The program included interviews with the likes of Gore Vidal, Joan Didion, David Foster Wallace and Toni Morrison.

Former NHL star Jim Morrison, who spent two seasons with the Pittsburgh Penguins during his legendary hockey career, has died. He was 94 years old. The NHL Alumni Association announced Morrison’s ...

Clashes with television networks and nightclubs, public indecency charges, becoming the first rock ‘n’ roller ever to be arrested on stage, jail time, an entire protest march in his (dis)honor—the ...

East Tennessee has lost a beloved local figure and fierce champion of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Jim Hart, a longtime WBIR general manager, has died at age 83. Hart died Feb. 5, according to ...