PositiveThe New York Journal of BooksA black gay man of West Indian origins, Mr. Als writes analyses framed through the lenses of race, sexuality, and gender, but never in tendentious or predictable ways: his sensibility is too particular, too idiosyncratic for that ... Though one can quarrel with Als about Capote, and some of his other subjects, even the less successful pieces in White Girls often boast brilliant writing and original and startling observations that make one see them in new ways ... The most powerful piece in White Girls is \'Gone With the Wind,\' a harrowing rumination on racism that takes as its starting point a collection of photographs depicting lynchings of African Americans.
