Clemmons weaves affecting memoir with incisive criticism and reporting to map out the limits of personal, political, racial, economic, and gender-based liberation—and to muse on how those bounds might yet be surpassed ... It is an embrace of complexity that animates Freedom. For all the forces of subjugation that Clemmons critiques as curbing our freedoms, she is anything but defeatist—that would be too easy.
A series of searching and well-researched essays combining memoir, cultural criticism, and reportage ... Rejecting conventional wisdom and misleading narratives, Clemmons thinks clearly and writes bravely on crucial topics.
