...Race, Sex, Politricks, and Belles Lettres Section five collects Greg Tate’s best literary criticism, on works ranging from novels by Toni Morrison, Zadie Smith, and Edward P. Jones to scholarly work by Patricia Hill Collins and biographers of Amiri Baraka and Frantz Fanon. In a final essay...

... of the city would be defined by an element that fades into the broader picture: the bell towers, about a hundred of which dominate the skyline. As chapter 14 makes clear, bringing the bell towers back into focus also makes us aware of another way a bird’s-eye view obscures reality. From high in the air...