Nolan Can Read

1970s

January 16, 2024

If Beale Street Could Talk

By James Baldwin

Most books I read which strive to be about the Black experience living in America are ultimately about trauma, for obvious reasons. If Beale Street Could Talk also has its fair share of trauma and no happy ending - but...

September 19, 2023

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

By Walter Rodney

The primary thrust of this book - using dialectical materialist/Marxist analysis to demonstrate the evils of Colonialism - seems kind of wild to me, from a historiographical standpoint. The only people who I can imagine these days denying the abstract...