John Edgar Wideman, acclaimed author of more than 25 books, has written yet another full-hearted volume. It’s called “Slaveroad,” a genre-defying and clear-eyed meditation on the roiling effects of ...
What role can words play to mitigate the damage of a violent history? This question is at the heart of John Edgar Wideman’s “Slaveroad,” a searing rumination on what plagues and fascinates the ...
Wideman can never get outside of himself to say what others see in him, but he keeps trying to do so on the slaveroad, that imprisoning set of conditions no one can escape. Detail of photo of author ...
The works in the new John Edgar Wideman collection, “Languages of Home,” are technically essays, about, as the subtitle says, “Writing, Hoop, and American Lives.” But you’d be forgiven for mistaking ...
"In The Louis Till File, John Edgar Wideman searches for Louis Till, a silent victim of American injustice. Wideman's personal interaction with the story began when he learned of Emmett's murder in ...
John Edgar Wideman, acclaimed author of more than 25 books, has written yet another full-hearted volume. It’s called “Slaveroad,” a genre-defying and clear-eyed meditation on the roiling effects of ...
What role can words play to mitigate the damage of a violent history? This question is at the heart of John Edgar Wideman’s “Slaveroad,” a searing rumination on what plagues and fascinates the ...
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