Tayari Jones

Tayari Jones, the author of the novels An American Marriage, Silver Sparrow and The Untelling, is a professor at Emory University

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Senator Raphael Warnock Is Running Again for the Soul of Georgia

Raphael Warnock understands himself as a man born of a mighty lineage that he regards a “moral tradition.” He begins with his father, a self-taught metal worker, collecting cast-off vehicles, disassembling them, and selling them...

By Tayari Jones

'The Most Formidable Mind of Our Times.' Tayari Jones Honors Toni Morrison's Work and Legacy

I have never been to Lorain, Ohio, but it has been on my bucket list for 20 years at least. I’m curious about this town, population 64,000, located 120 miles north of Columbus, at the...

By Tayari Jones

There’s Nothing Virtuous About Finding Common Ground

The first time I found myself facing a political dilemma was in the year 1976; I was 5 years old. My parents were what we used to call “movement people,” veterans of the civil rights...

By Tayari Jones
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