Edmund White

2 months ago | kirkusreviews.com | Neko Case |Edmund White

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Nov 9, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Edmund White |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |

A blissfully vicarious, heartfelt glimpse into the life of a Manhattan burlesque dancer. A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, shares her dynamic history as a “fiercely independent” Black burlesque dancer who used the stage name Tanqueray and became a celebrated fixture in midtown adult theaters.

Nov 6, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Craig Unger |Edmund White |Jason de Léon |Dorian Lynskey

Carl Rhodes. Bristol Univ, $29.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-5292-3910-2“Vast and widening economic injustice on a global scale is obscured by the moralization of the ultra-rich,” according to this biting critique. Rhodes (Woke Capitalism), an organization studies professor at the University of Technology Sydney, argues that lionizing billionaires as either heroic, generous, meritorious, or crusading serves to mask their misdeeds while deflating calls to more equitably distribute wealth.

Oct 17, 2024 | yalereview.org | Edmund White

Edmund White I’M A RETIRED CLASSICS PROFESSOR seventy-one years old living on Naxos with an English woman friend, a journalist. Every simple statement invariably disguises several messy truths.

May 23, 2024 | citylights.com | Edmund White |Garth Greenwell

The letters of a seducer to the great love of his life, a sensual tour-de-force by “the paterfamilias of queer literature” (New York Times) “Can’t sleep tonight. Was lying in bed reading the biography of a great man whose genius deserted him . . .