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Biographical note
Hilton Als is a Pulitzer prize-winning writer and chief theatre critic at The New Yorker. He has received numerous awards, including the New York Association of Black Journalists' first prize for Magazine/Critique/Review and Magazine Arts and Entertainment, a Guggenheim fellowship for Creative Writing, a George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, and the American Academy's Berlin Prize. He is a Professor at Columbia University's Writing Program, and his work has appeared in The Nation, The Believer, and New York Review of Books. He lives in New York City.A rhapsodic and provocative collection of essays on race, class, sexuality and identity in America
Financial Times
Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James Baldwin
Observer
Effortless, fearless and honest
New York Times
The first time you read Hilton Als, it's a revelation ... you wonder where this guy has been all your life ... He is both a startlingly insightful intellectual and a friendly, open and generous-spirited companion. It is the authenticity of his voice which makes him so compelling. That and the sheer dazzling brilliance of his writing, visceral and poetic, big-hearted, hot-headed and fierce'
Big Issue
Enlightening... a book you should read now
VICE
The variations he plays on the themes of identity, intimacy and race achieve a fugue-like complexity and power
Washington Post
Beautiful and deeply intelligent
New Statesman
A stunning analysis of contemporary culture ... undoubtedly one of the most important books of our times
DAZED
Pioneering ... a mosaic of thoughts and observations, taking in the landscape of a New York ravaged by AIDS and his private grief for his lost lover, imagining silent film star Louise Brookes' drawling inner life, and examining his own complicated relationship with his sexuality and blackness
AnOther Magazine
Magnificent
Los Angeles Times
Stunning
Kirkus Reviews
Exhilarating ... Audacious
San Francisco Chronicle
Brilliant
Boston Globe
Mesmerising
Los Angeles Review of Books
This will be debated for years
Entertainment Weekly
This book will change you
Chicago Tribune
I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged
- John Jeremiah Sullivan,
An intersectional masterpiece of race and sexuality, fact and fiction, memoir and polemic. The book that allowed a generation to make radicalism full of beauty and emotion
I-D Magazine