Most people just see the sphinx. Then they notice the circles looped onto the sphinx’s backside, connecting it to an inexplicable J shape. Then the eye moves up to the name of a 1920s magazine: “FIRE!

This collection, which dates from circa 1901-1940, contains 37 books from African-American authors associated with the Harlem Renaissance. These materials were purchased in support of the exhibit "The ...

Welcome to Lit Trivia, the Book Review’s regular quiz about books, authors and literary culture. This week’s installment tests your knowledge of novels, poems and memoirs by writers connected to the ...

This September 7, the Harlem Book Fair will enter its next quarter-century, returning to upper Manhattan to celebrate its 26th anniversary. The event, said founder and publisher Max Rodriguez, is ...

The Harlem Renaissance was one of the most important artistic and cultural milestones in modern history, and a sweeping new exhibit at The New York Historical highlights how this era was — as Henry ...

“‘Harlem Rhapsody’ is my love letter to the extraordinary Jessie Redmon Fauset,” the author says of her forthcoming book and its protagonist Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, ...

A guest stop to read parts of the “FIRE!” magazine at entrance of the Silhouette exhibition inside The Wolfsonian - FIU on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, in Miami Beach, Florida. Carl Juste ...