Vol.13, No.3, Feb 7, 1991

‘White Man’s Heaven’, Michael Wood

Michael Wood reviews James Campbell’s Talking at the Gates and WJ Weatherby’s Artist on Fire. Discussing JB’s coverage of/ flirtation with Black muslim radicals, Wood says: ‘…in the writing simply, scrupulously acknowledges the lure of what he can not endorse. He seems at one swoop to have alienated everyone: to have become too black for the whites and to have remained too white for the blacks’.