PositiveThe RootProving Morrison to be one of our most incisive cultural critics as well as a creative force, her latest work is a nonfiction collection comprising four decades’ worth of thought on topics as seemingly diverse as feminism, colonization and the colonialist mentality, immigration, and Americanism vs. Africanism ... For readers and aspiring writers alike, Morrison’s willingness to share her sources of inspiration and strategic literary devices while championing the need for the writer’s voice belie her years as a professor, as she touches upon the process of crafting some of her most revered works ... she reminds us that the work of reflection is neverending.
