| "Toni Morrison’s Song of America." "Black life is the canvas for Ms. Morrison’s body of work. It yields the conditions and the characters that fascinated her as an artist. But I believe her subject is America, this place founded upon conflict and driven by the need to define one group against another. Her work asks: Who are we? What have we built and broken together? What does it mean to regard one another deeply, humbly, hopefully? And what are the consequences for our refusal to regard one another? Across Ms. Morrison’s novels and essays, these questions operate in the intimate spaces — in families, friendships, marriages — that serve to determine the terms of our engagement with the wider world. And the reverse is true as well: The terms of the wider world seep inevitably into the most private regions of our lives."
via THE NEW YORK TIMES | 