Novelist, poet, playwright, songwriter, essayist, activist and MacArthur genius, Ishmael Reed has...

A new novel from the most outspoken African-American writer of our time.

Oakland is a blues city, brawling and husky . . .Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its twinkli...

Fifty of today’s most esteemed writers intimately detail how bars across the globe shape ...

Ishmael Reed's career as one of our great playwrights has long been eclipsed by his other wo...

It's the 1980s and the politics of the New York theater scene have taken yet another turn....

Ishmael Reed's parody of slavenarrativestheclassical literature of the African American tradition...

Ishmael Reed’s inspired fable of the ragtime era, in which a social movement threatens to s...

Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by most historians, this dramatic ...

“Folks. This here is the story of the Loop Garoo Kid. A cowboy so bad he made a working poss...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all timeIn Up from Slav...

Ishmael Reed's inspired comic fable of the ragtime era - hailed by Harold Bloom as one of the fiv...