The Novels of Toni Morrison and Language as Liberation

The 92nd Street Y, New York · Mar 13, 2026 · 1h 12m

With Kevin Young, Reginald Dwayne Betts, Sasha Bonét, and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison helped Americans of all races see themselves with radical clarity in modern classics like Sula and Beloved. Her lectures on American literature and racial imagination, now available for the first time, have never been more necessary. Join The New Yorker’s poetry editor Kevin Young, novelist Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, writer Sasha Bonét, and poet Reginald Dwayne Betts for a conversation that breaks open the taboos about race in American literature — and a celebration of…