Brillante ed eccentrico, Mumbo Jumbo è un’elegia e una rivendicazione della cultura africana in tutte le sue manifestazioni e latitudini, dalla mitologia egizia al VooDoo, al blues e al dixieland. È una...

For Ishmael Reed, Barack Obama, like Michelangelo’s St. Anthony, is a tormented man, haunted by modern reincarnations of the demonic spirits used to break slaves. These were the “Nigger Breakers”—men...

More than a biography and ‘bigger than boxing’, The Complete Muhammad Ali is a fascinating portrait of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. Ishmael Reed calls it The Complete Muhammad...

Ishmael Reed goes too far, again! Just as the fugitive slaves went to Canada and challenged the prevailing view that slaves were well off under their masters, Ishmael Reed has gone all the way to Quebec—where...

A new collection of essays first published in The New York Times and Playboy. Reed tackles subjects including Oakland, eugenics, and domestic violence.

This powerful essay collection from an award-winning author takes a critical look at America’s history of racism and the battles fought through the years by Black Americans. African Americans have been...

“That’s a lot of horse hockey, Hamilton.” Described by the New York Times as “classic activist theater” and “a cross between ‘A Christmas Carol’ and a trial at The Hague’s International Criminal Court.”...

Harlem, années 1920. PaPa LaBas, détective et sorcier « néo-houdouiste », est engagé dans une lutte contre l’Ordre de la Fleur de muraille. Les membres de ce mouvement suprémaciste veulent éradiquer un...