Best African American Fiction. Bantam, $16 (336pp) ISBN 978-0-553-38534-2. There hasn\x92t been an anthology of such talented African-American literary figures since Marita Golden\x92s Gumbo, and ...

40 best African American books, according to the NAACP Celebrate Black History Month reading these NAACP-nominated books, from fiction to poetry and young adult literature.

The AAFCA winners were announced this morning, alongside the organization’s list of the year’s ten best films. The list was topped by American Fiction, with spots for Oppenheimer, Past Lives ...

A new book series promises to highlight the best work of contemporary black authors. That's the hope of professor Gerald Early, co-editor of Best African American Fiction and Best African American ...

Writer Chioma Okereke was taught by the novelist whose book inspired the Oscar-nominated film ‘American Fiction’. Like the movie’s frustrated protagonist, her own experiences are the same ...

African American Film Critics Awards: ‘American Fiction,’ ‘The Color Purple’ and ‘Origin’ Top Winners. Danielle Brooks, Sterling K. Brown, Colman Domingo, Aujanue Ellis-Taylor and Da ...

African American literature spawns some of the best quotes about love and relationships, like these 13 from our favorite Black women authors.

The books were behind schedule. But as they now hit the shelves, ink barely dry, their timing appears impeccable. While the country celebrates the inauguration of Barack Obama, its first black ...

In my nearly three decades as an editor, author and former editor of The New York Times Book Review, a shorthand has often been used to describe contemporary authors — the Latino poet, the ...

Best African American Fiction 2010, . . Ballantine/One World, $25 (313pp) ISBN 978-0-553-80690-8. Series editor, culture critic and essayist Early and guest editor Giovanni, the noted poet and ...