John Edgar Wideman’s new book connects reflections on his own life to imaginative studies of historical figures. By Randy Boyagoda Check out new books by Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Richard ...
What role can words play to mitigate the damage of a violent history? This question is at the heart of John Edgar Wideman’s “Slaveroad,” a searing rumination on what plagues and fascinates the ...
Is it high tribute or snarky takedown to say that a novelist’s prose reads like verse? The “poetry of imagination,” scolded Hegel in his Lectures on Aesthetics, precedes the “prose of thought.” Does ...
John Edgar Wideman, acclaimed author of more than 25 books, has written yet another full-hearted volume. It’s called “Slaveroad,” a genre-defying and clear-eyed meditation on the roiling effects of ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Ismail Muhammad LOOK FOR ME AND I’LL BE GONE Stories By John Edgar Wideman The first entry in ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Pittsburgh, what a generator of loneliness and tumult. Its predominantly African-American Hill ...
John Edgar Wideman is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His articles on Malcolm X, Spike Lee, Denzel Washington, Michael Jordan, Emmett Till, Thelonius Monk, and ...
John Edgar Wideman, acclaimed author of more than 25 books, has written yet another full-hearted volume. It’s called “Slaveroad,” a genre-defying and clear-eyed meditation on the roiling effects of ...
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