Nonfiction
Autumn 1990
Life with Daughters: Watching the Miss America Pageant
The theater is an expression of our dream life—of our unconscious aspirations. DAVID MAMET, “A Tradition of the Theater as Art,” Writing in Restaurants Aunt Hester went out one night,—where […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1988
The Black Intellectual and the Sport of Prizefighting
IA Theoretical Prelude Once I saw a prize fighter boxing a yokel. The fighter was swift and amazingly scientific. His body was one violent flow of rapid rhythmic action. He […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1987
Needed: Useful Black Literary History
To Tell a Free Story: The First Century of Afro-American Autobiography, 1760-1865 by William L. Andrews. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986. 353 pages. $25.95. . . .innocent lunacy […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1985
The Passing of Jazz’s Old Guard: Remembering Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and Sonny Stitt
Music is your experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. CHARLIE PARKER1 For, while the tale of how we suffer, […]