Reed's Postmodernist Blog

            I have a book entitled Who Killed John F. Kennedy? , the first of the two Lose your own adventure books. As you can probably ...

            Kindred takes place in two wildly different eras: 1976 and the early 1800’s. The early 1800’s is a time of slavery, poor medi...

            Author’s note: This blog post is based on readings up to the end of The Storm. If more evidence shows up later, I’ll probably ...

            Every soldier portrayed in Slaughterhouse-Five is either incompetent or dead or both. That reinforces the messages that war i...

            Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo describes a fight between proponents of Jes Grew and the Atonists. The book itself is a rebellion a...

            Chapter 40 of E. L. Doctorow’s Ragtime wraps up every bit of the plot and concludes with the end of World War I. What sort of ...

            Throughout Ragtime , many historical figures make appear as characters, though mostly as cameos. A few of them interact with th...