Richard Wright

Finding Africa in Harlem: Displacement and Belonging in Claude McKay’s Home to Harlem

Belinda Edmondson on the Peripatetic Perspective of a Landmark Novel

 
By Belinda Edmondson  February 5, 2025
Black Activism

Must the Professor Crusade? W. Ralph Eubanks on the Connection Between Black Writing and Black Resistance

By W. Ralph Eubanks  November 12, 2024
African Diaspora

Writing Between Worlds: Navigating My African and American Identities on the Page

By Itoro Bassey  September 6, 2024
The Craft of Writing

Jessica Anthony on Getting a Grip on Fictional Time

By Jessica Anthony  August 16, 2024
James Baldwin

Colm Tóibín on James Baldwin’s Enduring, International Influence

By Caoilinn Hughes  August 2, 2024
Harlem Renaissance

Respectability Be Damned: How the Harlem Renaissance Paved the Way for Art by Black Nonbelievers

By Anthony B. Pinn  May 24, 2024
Literary Adaptations

How Richard Wright’s Native Son Eventually Made It to the Big Screen

By Charlene Regester  February 29, 2024
Inspiration

Black Boy and Me: How Richard Wright Inspired Omer Aziz

By Omer Aziz  August 7, 2023
Classic Literature

Henry Louis Gates Jr. on What Makes a “Classic” African American Text

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  January 31, 2023
Coming of Age

On the Anguish of Quarterlife: A Literary History

By Satya Doyle Byock  July 26, 2022
Classic Reviews

Richard Wright on Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

By Book Marks  February 22, 2022
Xenophobia

How Richard Wright Grappled with Behaviorism, Racism, and Trauma in Native Son

By George Makari  September 14, 2021
The Hub

Richard Wright’s lost novel has just been optioned for seven figures.

By Dan Sheehan  June 25, 2021
The Hub

13 new books to get on Independent Bookstore Day.

By Katie Yee  April 20, 2021
Astrology or Whatever

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

By Emily Temple  April 1, 2021
Reading Lists

How Honest is Too Honest? 6 Books That Straddle That Line

By Michael Leviton  January 15, 2021
Behind the Mic

Uncle Tom’s Children by Richard Wright, Read by Adam Lazarre-White

By Behind the Mic   December 18, 2020
Movies

The 1951 adaptation of Native Son (starring Richard Wright) is a darkly satiric noir.

By Aaron Robertson  October 5, 2020
The Hub

For what it’s worth, Kamala Harris has pretty good taste in books.

By Emily Temple  August 12, 2020
History

How Did Artists Survive the First Great Depression?

By David A. Taylor  June 29, 2020
The Writing Life

5 Reasons a Writer Should Move to Jackson, Mississippi

By Tom Head  May 13, 2019
Feature

Your 2019 Literary Adaptation Preview

By Emily Temple  December 17, 2018
Excerpts

The CIA-Soviet Culture Wars That Shaped American Art

By Juliana Spahr  November 16, 2018
Feature

A Century of Reading: The 10 Books That Defined the 1940s

By Emily Temple  October 19, 2018
Design

50 Pulp Cover Treatments of Classic Works of Literature

By Emily Temple  May 2, 2018
Feature

How to Visit the Graves of 75 Famous Writers

By Emily Temple  March 26, 2018
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