For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
20th Century & Race

June 2023 Issue

Tim Stanley

In God He Trusted

King: The Life of Martin Luther King

By Jonathan Eig

July 2021 Issue

Michael Javen Fortner

A Riot or a Revolution?

America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

By Elizabeth Hinton

December 2019 Issue

Robert Colls

Home Office Truths

Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation

By Colin Grant

The Windrush Betrayal: Exposing the Hostile Environment

By Amelia Gentleman

March 1991 Issue

John Taylor

Are You Politically Correct?

March 1993 Issue

Marybeth Hamilton

‘John’ Thomas Unmasked

Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas and the Construction of Social Reality

By Toni Morrison (ed)

October 2000 Issue

Patrick O'Connor

Paris Black and White

Brassaï: No Ordinary Eyes

By Alain Sayag & Annick Lionel-Marie

Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture in the 1920s

By Petrine Archer-Straw

August 2017 Issue

Piers Brendon

Home from Home?

Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain

By Clair Wills

February 1995 Issue

Frances Crook

If Prison Does No Good, What Can We Do?

The Violence of Our Lives: Interviews with Life-Sentence Prisoners in America

By Tony Parker

February 1995 Issue

Janet Gruber

Filtered Feelings

African Women

By Mark Mathabane

January 1986 Issue

Ben Okri

Quest for Freedom

Brothers and Keepers

By John Edgar Wideman

February 2013 Issue

Josh Glancy

The Sin that Wouldn’t Die

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

By Douglas A Blackmon