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In her column “Stanford TBR” (to be read), Cate Burtner recommends books that would resonate with the Stanford community — a reading list compiled for outside the classroom. Editor’s Note: This ...

When I was a child I thought I would be a dancer or a worship leader at a Pentecostal church, a preacher's wife or a glamorous actress. In high school my grades were so good that the world seemed to ...

Yaa Gyasi always intended to write about mothers and daughters. In a 2016 profile, the now 31-year-old Ghanaian American writer said that after her sophomore year at Stanford, she traveled to Ghana to ...

The University of Wisconsin announced Yaa Gyasi’s “Transcendent Kingdom” as the 2021-22 Go Big Read novel last week. Chancellor Rebecca Blank selected the novel as part of UW’s annual common reading ...

In Yaa Gyasi’s masterful new novel, “Transcendent Kingdom,” Gifty, a sixth-year Ph.D. candidate in neuroscience, is living the life of the mind. She has traded the pews of her childhood Pentecostal ...

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Yaa Gyasi's new novel is poised to be the literary event of the fall, and she has the tour schedule to prove it. EW is exclusively revealing the Transcendent Kingdom tour dates, with registration ...

Trauma reverberates through a fractured family, in the latest novel from the author of Homegoing Yaa Gyasi's debut, Homegoing, was a multigenerational saga about the legacy of slavery. Her equally ...