RaveBookPageDelightfully funny ... It sparkles with elegance, wit and grace ... Exquisitely captures moments small and monumental in equal measure, revealing one of our most brilliant storytellers at work.
Henry Louis Gates
PositiveBookPageThe Black Box requires that readers rethink the ways we talk about race in America today. Gates’ passionate and compelling prose, and the book’s lucid details and insights, lay the historical and artistic groundwork for such conversations.
Jonathan Eig
RaveBookPageVibrantly written ... Makes him a real human being again, one who had affairs, smoked and drank, got angry and even plagiarized.