The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. One night in 2014, friends Stephanie Kent and Logan Smalley sat in a literary bar ...
Ishmael Beah’s 2007 memoir, “A Long Way Gone,” was hard to ignore and impossible to forget. News reports about children conscripted into Sierra Leone’s civil war had shocked the world, but then came ...
A footnote to the Voice cover story, which probed the veracity of some of Ishmael Beah’s claims, in the celebrated memoir “A Long Way Gone”: Beah describes an incident in which six teens were killed ...
“Call me Ishmael,” declares one of the most famous opening sentences in Western literature. But what if the narrator of Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” was actually asking you to call him? That was the ...
“By its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe,” says Ishmael, in Chapter 42 of Herman Melville’s masterpiece. “It” is whiteness—the color of Moby-Dick, an ...
Novelist Ishmael Beah is wise beyond his years. He has no choice but to be — between the ages of 13 and 16, Beah was a soldier in the Sierra Leone civil war. Beah, now 33 and living in Brooklyn, ...
The "Ishmael" books are aimed at encouraging radical social change — but their author says hostage-taking is definitely not the change he had in mind. Daniel Quinn's story of Ishmael, a telepathic ...
SALEM — “Moby-Dick” has the most famous opening sentence in American literature: “Call me Ishmael.” That’s it, but what a lot gets packed into those three words. Now that sentence can make a further ...
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