Jan Herman

You have to go behind the billboards to understand what's happening in America. So said the novelist Nelson Algren, who was as sharp a social critic of the culture as H.L. Mencken ever was. Seems to me that the British author A. Robert Lee would agree Algren. But Lee has

His mouth is too big, and his conscience . . . well . . . he doesn't have one.

'Don't let anybody convince you this is the way the world is and therefore must be. It must be the way it ought to be.' — Toni Morrison 'Waiting until everything looks feasible is too long to wait.' — Rebecca Solnit