Over a decade ago, Oprah [ Images ] Winfrey produced and starred in a much admired film version of the Toni Morrison novel Beloved but the film bombed at the box-office. Full Article at Rediff

The ringing of the phone tore through the silence of a small hotel room in Washington D.C. and woke Bob Richardson up from his sleep. It was 5 a.m. Richardson picked up the receiver, only to hear an unfamiliar voice speaking in a Swedish accent. Full Article at Cornell Daily Sun

Aravind Adiga's Booker prize-winning novel The White Tiger has emerged as an early frontrunner for the Impac Dublin literary award, but the Indian writer will have to see off the likes of Nobel laureates José Saramago and Toni Morrison if he is to take... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited

Rebekkah, who has fled her hateful family and the ferocious Christian sectarianism of seventeenth-century England for marriage to a stranger in the New World wilderness of Mary's Land, has reason to wonder after so much silence, absence, vacancy, and... Full Article at Powell's Books

There is no shortage of one-person shows. Indeed, there is a glut of them on both coasts. Some are good, some not so good. How do you avoid the mediocre and present something that resonates with audiences? Full Article at Backstage

[This review from the Monitor’s archives originally ran on April 17, 1992.] It was hard to imagine what Toni Morrison would do for an encore after her stunning achievement in “Beloved,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the psychic scars of... Full Article at Christian Science Monitor