A review of two recent memoirs....
Ron Is Still Home
"Ian Rankin once explained to an interviewer (the head of the Indian Communist Party!) that crime fiction is a way of talking about social inequality. Ron Jacobs applies that same maxim to the Sixties... in his wonderfully noir trilogy of those exhilarating and troubled times. And what Rankin does for Edinburgh, Jacobs amply illuminates for the Movement. Much much more than ripping yarns (though they are that too), from a master who's been there, done that, and lived to tell a tale or two."
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I Have to Be Honest, These are Both Lousy Choices
One of the worst choices in my lifetime. Even worse than Nixon-Humphrey......
https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/08/i-have-to-be-honest-these-are-both-lousy-choices/
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Washington and Tel Aviv: Morally Diseased
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On Claudine Gay's Resignation
From Ishmael and Tennessee Reed's publication Konch Magazinne
Here is a link to the magazine issue. My piece is in the Essays section:
https://ishmael-reed.squarespace.com/winter-2024
Here is a direct link to the article