No one has more fun with racial terminology than Danzy Senna. In her 2007 short story ... in desperate need of stability. They have two children, Finn and Ruby, but lack steady housing and ...

Danzy Senna's new novel is an exhilarating yet poignant ... fitting the requirements of a family of two artists and two young children — Ruby is 8 and Finn is 6 — Jane and Lenny move from ...

On a recent Monday, while the Pianist was inside looking at art, I was sitting in a chair in front of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. A good spot to catch up with the Sunday New York Times book ...

There’s a moment of personal reckoning early on in Danzy Senna’s new novel ... requirements of a family of two artists and two young children — Ruby is 8 and Finn is 6 — Jane and Lenny ...

$24.00 Shop Now Danzy Senna may have a few things in common with main character ... God, she was inappropriate for children. And God, we children loved her for it.

And I find that irritating.” This focuses on the fraught relationship between a father and his children. Their story is told over four summers when they visit him. White: “This story has several ...

He died at 81. “Colored Television,” by Danzy Senna: Take one frustrated biracial novelist. Add an abstract painter husband and two demanding, complicated children (are there any other kind?).