John Edgar Wideman, acclaimed author of more than 25 books, has written yet another full-hearted volume. It’s called ...

A: There were all kinds of crackpot ideas of how to save yourself. People walked around with kerchiefs around their face, kerchiefs they'd soaked in camphor. You would hear guns going off all the ...

When John Edgar Wideman won the PEN Faulkner award in America last year, it was more than a sign that he was beginning to get the recognition he long deserved. With six books (fifteen years of writing ...

Just two years earlier, Jacob’s father and acclaimed author John Edgar Wideman had published “Brothers and Keepers.” The elder Wideman’s memoir grappled with how his own brother — Jacob ...