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Editor's note
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Most people think of Toni Morrison, who has died aged 88, as a towering literary talent; a Nobel laureate whose novels gave a voice to African-American women and whose role as a public intellectual over several decades helped bring to prominence key issues of race and gender. Less well known is that, as a publisher early in her career, she was instrumental in giving a voice to black writers such as Toni Cade Bambara, Leon Forrest and Gayl Jones. Tessa Roynon, the author of two books on Morrison, pays tribute. And Paul Giles writes that both Morrison's creative and her critical work were designed to remap the contours of American literature and culture.
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Jonathan Este
Associate Editor, Arts + Culture Editor
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A giant remembered
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EPA/Michael Reynolds
Tessa Roynon, University of Oxford
With her writing, and her work as a publisher, Morrison brought the African-American experience to the fore in the US and around the world.
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Toni Morrison photographed in 2010: in both her fiction and non-fiction, she sought to expose the ‘national amnesia’ underlying often unconscious forms of racism.
Ian Langsdon/EPA
Paul Giles, University of Sydney
In her creative and critical work, Toni Morrison sought to remap the contours of American literature and culture.
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Science + Technology
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Jason Gilchrist, Edinburgh Napier University
New research suggests some dinosaurs buried and protected eggs in groups.
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Sarah Wurz, University of the Witwatersrand; Joshua Kumbani, University of the Witwatersrand; Justin Bradfield, University of Johannesburg; Neil Rusch, University of the Witwatersrand
Working with bone artefacts from archaeological sites in South Africa's southern Cape region, we've been able to show that some implements might have been used for sound production in the past.
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Politics + Society
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Kamran Khalid, University of Sydney
The Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir is situated mostly in the Himalayas. For decades, it had its own constitution, flag and the ability to make its own laws.
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Patricia Kitsao-Wekulo, African Population and Health Research Center; Margaret Nampijja, African Population and Health Research Center
We found that women who had access to subsidised day-care services were 17% more likely to be employed than those who were not.
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En français
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Annette Joseph-Gabriel, University of Michigan
Des femmes noires ayant combattu les nazis pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale aux femmes aujourd'hui impliquées en politique, le premier combat est celui de la légitimité.
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Benoît Pelopidas, Sciences Po – USPC; Fabrício M. Fialho, Sciences Po – USPC
La première enquête sur les connaissances et attitudes des Européens eu égard aux questions nucléaires révèle des biais surprenants en France, porteurs d'importantes implications pour la démocratie.
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