Toni Morrison

Hunger Games

By Raj Telhan, Illustrations by Rachel Levit-Ruiz

Spring 2022

Near the end of the hellish first year of the coronavirus pandemic, I was possessed by the desire to eliminate sugar—all refined sugar—from my diet. In retrospect, it probably wasn’t the best time to add a new challenge to the mix of mayhem that already seemed to rule my life.

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God Help the Child. By Toni Morrison. Knopf, 2015. 192p. HB, $24.95.

The Riotous Power of Toni Morrison

By Kaitlyn Greenidge

April 20, 2015

In her eleventh novel, God Help the Child, there’s no danger of desiccation. Morrison’s work is as insistent as ever. She could still be charged with inciting a riot—albeit a quiet one, one that lends itself to pernicious reversals of thinking rather than dramatic implosions.

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A Dream Deferred: Integrated Education In America

By Ted Genoways

Winter 2004

I have chosen to begin my first issue as editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review with a special portfolio of work on a subject dear to my predecessor: integrated education. Staige D. Blackford first made a name for himself in March 1952 when, as a gr [...]

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The Journey to School Integration

By Toni Morrison

Winter 2004

Whenever I see sheets drying on the line or smell gumbo simmering on the stove, a flood of memories comes to me. In 1953 when I traveled in the rural South with a group of students, we received the generosity of strangers—African Americans who took us in when there were no places for nonwhites to eat or sleep.

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