Sunday Telegraph, June 23 1968: 13

‘Harlem boy takes stock’, Hugh Massingham

Hugh Massingham reviews Tell Me How Long the Trains Been Gone: ‘JB is a polemical writer and he is at his best when he is dealing with social and political questions…His attitude to religion is not only platitudinous: it is almost puerile…There are scenes in the novel that have nothing to do with anything beyond an amateurish attempt to create an atmosphere…’