A Man for Many Seasons  

Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable Viking Adult, 2001, 608 pp. Manning Marable’s Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention hit the book stands last spring with considerable buzz, given the allure that accompanied Malcolm X’s life story, …









Behind the Masks  

Fanon: A Novel by John Edgar Wideman Houghton Mifflin, 2008, 240 pp., $24.00 The overall critical response to John Edgar Wideman’s Fanon was not positive. Carlin Romano wrote in the Philadelphia Inquirer, “At a time when Barack Obama offers America …