Ishmael Reed's Reviews
Reviews of Ishmael’s Work
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Apr.07.2011
Published by The St. Louis American
It says a lot about the new Ishmael Reed novel, Juice!, that the first thing I wanted to do after finishing it was to do a news search for “O.J. Simpson.” Reed finished writing...
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Apr.05.2011
Published by Bookforum
When Ishmael Reed gets celebrated these days, now that he's well past age seventy, it's usually for the work he did decades ago. The novels that enjoy broadest critical approval...
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May.08.2011
Published by Los Angeles Times
Nobody renders the aphorism, "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you," more vividly on the page than Ishmael Reed. From the beginning of his career...
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Apr.14.2011
Published by San Francisco Chronicle
"I'm having evil thoughts about the media. Forbidden thoughts," says Paul Blessings, the prominent cartoonist who narrates "Juice!," the new novel by the Oakland writer Ishmael...
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Jun.23.2008
Published by Variety
The man Democrats loved to hate receives a docu portrait Republicans might chafe at in "Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story." Filmmaker Stefan Forbes begins with the correct premise...
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Jun.01.2008
Published by Kirkus Reviews
Reed (Blues City, 2003, etc.) thinks the media's portrayal of black people is racist—and he's probably right.
The author is perhaps better known by vociferous reputation than for...
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Jul.01.2008
Published by Library Journal
Reed (Reckless Eyeballing), an important novelist, poet, playwright, and critic of American society, has never been afraid of a fight and has taken on many contenders. This book...
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Nov.05.2007
Published by Back Stage
Ishmael means "God hears," and when Ishmael Reed speaks, God must listen very closely. Reed is one of our best contemporary satirists, and no one on the far right, the...
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Nov.03.2003
Published by Rastafari Speaks
“Mumbo Jumbo is a nonfiction novel. When a novel includes a 104-item bibliography, you know we’re in new territory.”
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Jun.17.1982
Published by The New York Times
“Mr. Reed has been revising the authorized edition of American history in all of his novels, to give the ghosts a chance to talk, and in The Terrible Twos he achieves a kind of...
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Feb.13.1994
Published by The New York Times
Over a long career writing fiction, essays, criticism, poetry and plays, Ishmael Reed has made members of every constituency angry. And while feminists of all hues may claim first...
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About Ishmael
Author of twenty-eight published books to date, Ishmael Reed is a novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist. He is also a publisher, editor of thirteen anthologies and numerous magazines, television producer, public media commentator, teacher and...