Articles by Michael Anderson

Books March 2017

Murray’s America

by Michael Anderson

A review of Albert Murray: Collected Essays & Memoirs: The Omni-Americans / South to a Very Old Place / The Hero and the Blues / Stomping the Blues / The Blue Devils of Nada (The Library of America) by Albert Murray.

Books September 2015

An American aesthetic

by Michael Anderson

A review of American Musicals: The Complete Books and Lyrics of 16 Broadway Classics, 1927-1969 (Library of America) by Laurence Maslon.

Features April 2015

Langston Hughes’s two faces

by Michael Anderson

A new selection of Langston Hughes’s letters shows how the “beloved bard of black America” was caught between the world he was born into and the one his poetry embodied.

Features April 2013

The too-brief career of Countee Cullen

by Michael Anderson

One of the Harlem Renaissance’s most important poet’s meteoric rise to fame was followed by a long an series of disappointments.

Articles by Michael Anderson

Books March 2017

Murray’s America

Books September 2015

An American aesthetic

Features April 2015

Langston Hughes’s two faces

Features April 2013

The too-brief career of Countee Cullen

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