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

The complexity of John Edgar Wideman’s books has much to do with their adherence to the concept of Great Time, a borrowing ...

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 ...

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 ...