WHITE GIRLS

White Girls, Hilton Alss first book since The Women fourteen years ago, finds one of The New Yorker's boldest cultural critics deft ly weaving together his brilliant analyses of literature, art, and music with fearless insights on race, gender, and history. The re sult is an extraordinary, complex portrait of white girls, as Als dubs theman expansive but precise category that encompasses fig ures as diverse as Truman Capote and Louise Brooks, Malcolm X and Flannery OConnor. In pieces that hairpin between critique and med itation, fict...[Read more]