Dec 31, 2009

Two Trains Running | What Do I Read Next?

Wilson’s Fences (1985) focuses on an ex-convict and baseball player who is locked in a desperate struggle with his son. Its sensitive depiction of themes which are widely supposed to be autobiographical has won it a place as one of the finest achievements in late-twentieth-century drama.

Dutchman (1964), by Amiri Baraka, is a stark and shocking depiction of a white woman’s efforts to take sexual advantage of a black man.

In Beloved (1987), Toni Morrison’s widely successful and influential novel about African American history and the supernatural,...