The Nobel Lecture In Literature, 1993...more

Don't be afraid. My telling can't hurt you in spite of what I have done and I promise to lie quietly in the dark--weeping perhaps or occasionally seeing the blood once more--...more

Toni Morrison is the Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1993 ...more

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Beloved and Jazz now gives us a learned, stylish, and immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that promises to change the way we ...more

“So precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry.”
—The New York Times
“A...more

“extravagantly beautiful. . . . enormously, achingly alive. . . . A howl of love and rage, playful and funny as well as hard and bitter.” —The New York...more

Toni Morrison is Robert F. Goheen Professor at Princeton University. She has written six previous novels, and has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the ...more

“A rich, full novel. . . . It lifts us up [and] impresses itself upon us like a love affair.” —The New York Times Book ...more

Toni Morrison is the Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities at Princeton University. She has received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. In 1993 ...more

"I wonder if Judy Blume really knows how many girls' lives she affected. I wonder if she knows that at least one of her books made a grown woman finally feel like she'd been a...more

Fifteen of emerson's most significant writings provide important information on the society in which emerson lived during his formative years...more

What happens to recalled meat?
What's the difference between a serial killer and a spree killer?
How do you stop a lava flow?
Does ...more

Walden and Civil disobedience...more

In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli's death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itself upon the lively ...more

The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one ...more

Published in conjunction with the PeN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power ...more

Six Memos for the Next Millennium...more

In 1845 Henry David Thoreau left his pencil-manufacturing business and began building a cabin on the shore of Walden Pond near Concord, Massachusetts. This lyrical yet ...more