Patrick Parr’s Malcolm Before X and the Politics of Race in 20th & 21st Century America
When I first read The Autobiography of Malcolm X, I was captivated by the story of a man who had transformed himself from an imprisoned small-time criminal…
Arthur O'Keefe
Arthur Shattuck O’Keefe is an Associate Professor of English at Showa Women’s University in Tokyo. His articles and essays have appeared in The Midwest Quarterly, The Japan Times, PopMatters, Kyoto Journal and Rain Taxi. His short fiction includes stories in Johnny America, Free Flash Fiction, and Suspense Magazine. He is the author of The Spirit Phone, a novel based upon Thomas Edison’s rumored invention to communicate with the dead (BHC Press, 2022). To learn more, visit https://arthurokeefe.net.