I’m sitting at a table as Toni Morrison scuttles around her kitchen, ginger rays of early sunset dancing across my lap and legs. With each flip of a page, each story of hers transporting me ...

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison’s first novel, was published in 1970. Set in Lorain, Ohio — where Morrison herself was born — the book tells the story of Pecola Breedlove, an eleven-year-old ...