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Best films of 2020 The 50 best films of 2020 in the UK: the full list

It’s number one time, and it’s a picture from the beginning of the year that nothing else has quite eclipsed for wit, thrills and sheer watchability

Published: 18 Dec 2020

Top 10s Top 10 books about creative writing

From linguistics to essays by Zadie Smith and Toni Morrison, poet Anthony Anaxagorou recommends some ‘lateral’ ways in to a demanding craft

Published: 14 Oct 2020

Top 10s Top 10 books about recovery

Finding a life beyond addiction, or other kinds of damaged personal life, is more complicated than we might wish. But as these books show, it is possible

Published: 15 Jul 2020

Books that made me Johny Pitts: 'War and Peace is just ... so long'

The journalist and author on Leo Tolstoy, Toni Morrison and a clear view of Blair’s Britain

Published: 26 Jun 2020

Page turners Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye at 50: a novel that speaks to our times

Candice Carty-Williams

Set after the Great Depression, Morrison’s heartbreaking debut explores beauty and finds joy where there really should be none

Published: 9 May 2020

Published: 9 May 2020

The Hlcarpenter.com view on new stories: helping others tell tales

Editorial: Everyone’s favourite stormtrooper will be developing new movies with Netflix – one of several creators who have turned to enabling the work of others

Published: 15 Mar 2020
4 out of 5 stars.

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am review – as elegant as its subject
4 out of 5 stars.

Published: 8 Mar 2020
4 out of 5 stars.

Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am review – powerful portrait of a cultural giant
4 out of 5 stars.

Published: 5 Mar 2020

Books that made me Sara Collins: ‘I can’t even start James Joyce’s Ulysses, let alone finish it'

This year’s winner of the Costa first novel award on James Baldwin’s perfect love story and why she reads essays for comfort

Published: 17 Jan 2020
Books that made me Tsitsi Dangarembga: ‘Reading Toni Morrison’s Beloved changed my life’

The Zimbabwean author on her love for Toni Morrison and Doris Lessing, and why Reni Eddo-Lodge changed her mind about England

Published: 10 Jan 2020

The Observer's obituaries of 2019 Toni Morrison remembered by Walter Mosley

The US crime writer remembers a literary great whose deep intellect, humanity and moral force inspired a generation of black Americans

Published: 15 Dec 2019

Jessye Norman obituary

One of the great sopranos of the 20th century who bewitched audiences with her powerful stage presence

Published: 1 Oct 2019

Top 10s Top 10 ghost stories

From Toni Morrison’s desolate tale of slavery’s legacy to Alice Sebold’s vision of heaven, Louise Doughty selects the best books that defy disbelief

Published: 28 Aug 2019
Frozen in time Frozen in time: Maya Angelou cooks for Toni Morrison, September 1994

To honour the author’s Nobel prize for literature, Angelou hosts a feast for 150 in her Winston-Salem home

Published: 18 Aug 2019
Toni Morrison remembered: ‘Her irreverence was godly’

Leading contemporaries pay tribute to the Nobel prize-winning novelist

Published: 11 Aug 2019
Toni Morrison remembered by Édouard Louis: ‘Her laugh was her revenge against the world’

The French author of The End of Eddy on the day he sipped neat vodka with the revered late author

Published: 11 Aug 2019

- Toni Morrison’s gift was to make black people feel seen
  
  Irenosen Okojie
  
  Published: 10 Aug 2019
  
  Published: 10 Aug 2019
- The Week in Patriarchy Strange how some anti-abortion activists are happy to separate kids from parents
  
  Arwa Mahdawi
  
  Published: 10 Aug 2019
  
  Published: 10 Aug 2019

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