Michael Anderson

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Michael Anderson on Marcus Garvey, "the most confounding figure in the history of black America." 

Self-Styled Moses

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The 1950s are often perceived as a halcyon era of conformity, tradition, and sexual reticence, but a new book argues that anxieties surrounding the development of a "permissive society" were just as high then as they are now. 

Tame Rebellion

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Muriel Spark forms, with Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene, “a grand triumvirate of Catholic-convert novelists."