The book, out Tuesday, is a fictionalization of the lives of many of the Harlem Renaissance’s key figures, including Hughes, Countee Cullen, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the woman credited as the whole ...

If you’re a fan of historical fiction, which half of that is most important to you: the history? Or the fiction? It’s entertaining to encounter actual people and events in a novel, where what we ...