"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."

--Ramsey Kanaan, Publisher PM Press/noir enthusiast

Sunday, January 21, 2024

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

On Claudine Gay's Resignation

Sunday, November 12, 2023

The Reality of Washington's Enterprise

 Once again, this review of Tariq Khan's The Republic Shall be Kept Clean is behind a paywall.  It can be easily released for the small price of $4.00 a month.  This will include a subscription to CP+ (the stuff behind the paywall).  Please consider subscribing.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/11/12/the-reality-of-washingtons-enterprise/