C.L.R. James—historian, Marxist theorist, cricket commentator and one of the twentieth century’s most prolific writers—wrote only one novel in his lifetime: Minty Alley, published in 1936. Set in a ...

Minty Alley is ultimately light entertainment. This may surprise those familiar with James’s scholarly output, but will certainly please readers who enjoy knockabout drama and low intrigue. The novel ...

The classic novel Minty Alley, by the famed Trinidad and Tobago writer and intellectual CLR James, is being adapted for the screen. A script based on the novel is being developed by writer Irma ...

James would instead make his name as one of the finest intellectuals of the 20th century. The Black Jacobins, his pioneering study of the Haitian Revolution, led by the charismatic, ex-slave Toussaint ...