Topic: Ishmael Reed

'Juice!' by Ishmael Reed review: O.J. obsession

0 "I'm having evil thoughts about the media. Forbidden thoughts," says Paul Blessings, the prominent cartoonist who narrates "Juice!," the new...

'Juice!' by Ishmael Reed, review: O.J. obsession

0 Juice! (Dalkey Archive; 336 pages; $14.95 paperback) . "I'm having evil thoughts about the media. Forbidden thoughts," says Paul Blessings, the...

Counting the ways to say 'I love you'

0 . Note Wade Wright saw scribbled on a napkin tucked under the wiper blade of a car parked in the Lower Haight last week: "Always remember someone...

The new gov flies with people

0 . Waiting to board a Southwest Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Sacramento, Leslie W. Lee of Stockton and his wife, Mae Nanjo-Lee, saw...

GERMANIC LITERATURES

The article reviews several books including " PS3568 2007^07443 97&O-7734-544a6 The "dark heathenism" of the American novelist Ishmael Reed; African voodoo as American literaiy hoodoo. $119.95 Mvuyekure (English and African-American literature, U. of Northern Iowa) presents an analysis of the work of the 20th-century African American novelist, poet, and essayist ...

New Jazz Poets

This collection of New Jazz Poets represents the evolution of this art form after several decades of its practice and includes celebrated poets Ishmael Reed, Peter La Farge, Joel Oppenheimer and Paul Blackburn, who are each capable of making jazz heard by ...

The Black Plague?

One need only consider the images this past fall of evangelical figurehead Ted Haggard in his SUV, disavowing his sins of meth and men from behind a cordon of family flesh (then admitting to them by proxy from a podium), against last ...