With Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes under her belt, Toni Morrison can be trusted to produce powerful literature, even at age 81. Home, released on May 8, is the author’s first novel since 2008, and her ...

Toni Morrison's new novel, 'Home,' is a poetic story that is both a journey and a reckoning. ... A Toni Morrison Society organizes conferences about her work and sponsors a Toni Morrison Book Prize.

I always take a deep breath as I pick up a Toni Morrison novel. I expect to be confronted, wooed, harrowed and, at some point, lifted sheer off my feet. Her themes -- identity, community, the ...

"Home" is Morrison's 10th novel. It's also her shortest. While some readers might be tempted to bypass it, concluding that it's most likely a late, minor work by a major author, to do so would be ...

Home. A Novel. Toni Morrison. Alfred A. Knopf: 148 pp., $24. I’ve long admired Toni Morrison as a moral visionary, but her fiction, not so much.

By Toni Morrison. Knopf, $24. “Don’t paint me as some enthusiastic hero,” whispers the voice of the main character in interstitials between the chapters of Morrison’s latest novel, Home.

Howard University alumna Toni Morrison’s slim, subtle new novel, Home, centers on Frank Money, a black Korean War vet who finds himself a second-class citizen in the pre-civil-rights America for which ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. In 2012, I visited the home of Toni Morrison, who was then 81, to discuss, among other ...