Tag: Dwight Garner

  • Kathleen Collins’s ‘Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?’ Books of The Times The New York Times 2016-11-29 Dwight Garner Kathleen Collins, Elizabeth Alexander (fore.), Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? (New York: Ecco, 2016) When the filmmaker, playwright and fiction writer Kathleen Collins died of breast cancer in 1988, at 46, she left behind a wide body…

  • Review: ‘Oreo,’ a Sandwich-Cookie of a Feminist Comic Novel The New York Times 2015-07-14 Dwight Garner Fran Ross’s first and only novel, “Oreo,” was published in 1974, four years after Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” and two years before Alex Haley’s “Roots.” It wasn’t reviewed in The New York Times; it was hardly reviewed anywhere.…

  • Review: Mat Johnson’s ‘Loving Day’ Takes a Satirical Slant on Racial Identities The New York Times 2015-05-26 Dwight Garner, Senior writer and book critic Mat Johnson’s new novel, “Loving Day,” takes its title from an unofficial holiday, one his narrator likens to “Mulatto Christmas.” It’s the observance of the Supreme Court ruling in Loving v.…

  • Books of The Times: One Nation, Still Divisible by Race The New York Times 2011-08-11 Dwight Garner Randall Kennedy, The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency, New York: Pantheon Books, 2011. 322 pp. August is not half over, and already it’s been a punishing month for Barack Obama: the debt…