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AN ARTIST ACHIEVES A CERTAIN RANK IN THE PANTHEON, and all too often the moment coincides with a marked decline of talent and relevance. What a pleasure, then, to catch up with Toni Morrison on the eve of the publication of her latest novel. If the Nobel Prize winner, revered as perhaps the most important writer working in America today, seems supremely aware of her laurels, she seems just as dedicated to not resting on them. That new book is a marvel, clearly the work of someone performing at the top of her game. Gorgeously written, confident, moody, demanding, provocative and short--particular delight in this moment of overwritten, underedited doorstops--Love will no doubt be ...
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