This provocative exchange, one of many in a novel by the Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay ... had petered out with the onset of the Great Depression. “It’s a really remarkable book ...

In The Deep End: The Literary Scene in the Great ... by the Depression.” Among those nurtured by the FWP were Ralph Ellison, who went on to achieve fame with Invisible Man, Claude McKay, a ...

(ThyBlackMan.com) Claude ... with McKay’s tender portrayal of family love, makes it a touching meditation on life and death.

Our critics on great artists who might’ve been lost to the canon. Claude McKay’s Romance in Marseille is a modern masterpiece. Photo: Courtesy of Penguin Random House Did you know they’re ...

Claude McKay’s novel “Romance in Marseille” deals with queer love, postcolonialism and the legacy of slavery. It also complicates ideas about the Harlem Renaissance. By Talya Zax Claude ...

In recent years Claude McKay (1889-1948), one of the most gifted ... “In the main ward of the great hospital Lafala lay like a sawed-off stump and pondered the loss of his legs.” ...

If we must die, the famous poem by Jamaica’s own Mr Claude McKay, has entered the lexicon of those versed in great literature and poetry in the English language. The poem gained world fame after ...