This is traditionally the season of sharing and giving, so think about all the novels and movies that pit the wealthy, affluent, well-to-do overseer against the poor, downtrodden, underling, little ...

Esal, a seven-year-old girl, was born in a country where everything is blue and square-shaped. One day, an alien object, pink and spherical, turns up close to her house. When it offers her the chance ...

pt. I. Epic impulses/narratives of ancestry -- Imperial mother wit, gumbo erotics: from Sunjata to The souls of Black folk -- Of root figures and buggy jiving: Toomer, Hurston, and Ellison -- ...