John Edgar Wideman, acclaimed author of more than 25 books, has written yet another full-hearted volume. It’s called “Slaveroad,” a genre-defying and clear-eyed meditation on the roiling effects of ...

What role can words play to mitigate the damage of a violent history? This question is at the heart of John Edgar Wideman’s “Slaveroad,” a searing rumination on what plagues and fascinates the ...

To reach her son Tommy in the correctional institute outside Pittsburgh, John Edgar Wideman writes in the short story “Solitary,” Lizabeth has to change buses twice, walk a mile to the prison gate, ...

John Edgar Wideman, acclaimed author of more than 25 books, has written yet another full-hearted volume. It’s called “Slaveroad,” a genre-defying and clear-eyed meditation on the roiling effects of ...

John Edgar Wideman’s new book connects reflections on his own life to imaginative studies of historical figures. By Randy Boyagoda Check out new books by Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Richard ...

Wideman can never get outside of himself to say what others see in him, but he keeps trying to do so on the slaveroad, that imprisoning set of conditions no one can escape. Detail of photo of author ...

The annual awards gala will take place this fall. Former MSNBC correspondent Joy Reid, Percival Everett, and John Edgar Wideman are among the winners of the 46th annual American Book Awards, presented ...

John Edgar Wideman, acclaimed author of more than 25 books, has written yet another full-hearted volume. It’s called “Slaveroad,” a genre-defying and clear-eyed meditation on the roiling effects of ...

Check out new books by Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Richard Powers, and revisit familiar worlds from Karl Ove Knausgaard, Haruki Murakami and Jeff VanderMeer. By Wilson Wong “Look for Me and I’ll ...

John Edgar Wideman, acclaimed author of more than 25 books, has written yet another full-hearted volume. It’s called “Slaveroad,” a genre-defying and clear-eyed meditation on the roiling effects of ...