Going Too Far

“Reed’s tendency to go too far has not diminished.” Paul Devlin, The San Francisco Chronicle “A courageous American man of letters, one who, if he lived in most places in the world, would be a martyr by now.” Hakim Hasan, The San Francisco Chronicle “Ishmael Reed is a buzz-saw. He ambushes arguments from everunpredictable angles forcing the rest of us, whatever our politics, to acknowledge not just his passion but the fierceness of his intellect.” Trey Ellis, author of Platitudes, Home Repairs, and “The New Black Aesthetic.” “Just when you think that Reed is xaggerating, or being one-dimensional in his analysis of racial issues, he’ll open another page of American history and show you something new.” David Homel, Montreal, Rover Arts