James, Marlon

About Marlon James

Reviews

Sandhu, Sukhdev. “Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James Review – Violent and Clichéd.” The Guardian, 22 Feb. 2019

Miller, Kei. “A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James Review – Bloody Conflicts in 70s Jamaica.” The Guardian, 10 Dec. 2014

Interviews

Preston, Alex. “Marlon James: ‘You Have to Risk Going too far’.” The Guardian, 17 Feb. 2019

Cocozza, Paula. “Man Booker Winner Marlon James: ‘I was the Nerd, I Wasn’t Into Sports, Assumed Gay’.” The Guardian, 14 Oct. 2015

Clark, Alex. “Marlon James: ‘I’ve Been Threatening to Write a Viking Novel for Almost 10 Years’.” The Guardian, 20 Dec. 2015

Winterson, Jeanette, and Marlon James. "Jeanette Winterson Meets Marlon James: ‘You Can’t Keep Upgrading People like You do with Your Phone'.” The Guardian, 28 Nov. 2015

Criticism

Frydman, Jason. “Death in the Arena: A Brief History of Dancehall, Time, and the Cold War.” Small Axe, vol. 60, 2019

Bucknor, Michael A. “Authorial Self-Fashioning, Political Denials and Artistic Distinctiveness: The Queer Poetics of Marlon James.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 26, no. 2, 2018

Shoemaker, Lauren. “Femme Finale: Gender, Violence and Nation in Marlon James’ Novels.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 26, no. 2, 2018

Harrison, Sheri-Marie. “Marlon James and the Metafiction of the New Black Gothic.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 26, no. 2, 2018

Crowley, Emma. “’So Many Incredible Gehennas’: Musicality and the (Poetics) of ‘Relation’ in the Novels of Marlon James.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 26, no. 2, 2018

Adams, Caryn Rae. “Uncomfortable Truths: Lifewriting, Trauma and Survivance in Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 26, no. 2, 2018

Walonen, Michael K. “Violence, Diasporic Transnationalism, and Neo-Imperialism in A Brief History of Seven Killings.” Small Axe, vol. 57, 2018

Hamilton, Njelle W. “’Jah Live’: Messianic Time and Post-Traumatic Narrative Disorder in Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 26, no. 2, 2018

Layne, Jhordan. “Re-Evaluating Religion and Superstition: Obeah and Christianity in Marlon James’s The Book of Night Women and William Earle Jr.’s Obi, or the History of Three-Fingered Jack.” Journal of West Indian Literature, vol. 26, no. 2, 2018

Deckard, Sharae. “’Always Returning from It’: Neoliberal Capitalism, Retrospect, and Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings.” CounterText, vol. 4, no. 2, 2018

Reyes, Paul. “Marlon James: Writing Against Type.” Virginia Quarterly Review, vol. 94, no. 1, 2018

Harrison, Sheri-Marie. “Global Sisyphus: Rereading the Jamaican 1960s through A Brief History of Seven Killings.” Small Axe, vol. 57, 2017

Fraser, Rhone. “Confronting Neocolonialism: An Evaluation of Marlon James’s A Brief History of Seven Killings.” Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 63, no. 1, 2017

Vásquez, Sam. “Violent Liaisons: Historical Crossings and the Negotiation of Sex, Sexuality, and Race in The Book of Night Women and The True History of Paradise.” Small Axe, vol. 38, 2012

Madore, Joél. “Jamaican Signatures: An Archetypal Analysis of Marlon James’s John Crow’s Devil.” Journal of Caribbean Literatures, vol. 7, no. 1, 2011

Works

Novels

Black Leopard, Red Wolf (2019)

A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014)

The Book of Night Women (2009)

John Crow’s Devil (2005)

Essays/Articles/Non-Fiction/Short Stories

“Oreo: Marlon James on a Crazy, Sexy, Forgotten Gem of Black Literature.” The Guardian, 7 Jul. 2018

“My Hero: Toni Morrison by Marlon James.” The Guardian, 17 Oct. 2015

Audio and Audiovisual Material

With Jake Morrissey. Marlon and Jake Read Dead People. Read it Forward, 2020

With Nalo Hopkinson. “Take Two: Nalo Hopkinson and Marlon James.” YouTube, 14 Oct. 2019