St Malcolm Martyr
Michael Wood, 25 March 1993
By Any Means Necessary: The Trials and Tribulations of the Making of ‘Malcolm X’
by Spike Lee and Ralph Wiley.
Vintage, 314 pp., £7.99, February 1993,0 09 928531 2 Show More
by Spike Lee and Ralph Wiley.
Vintage, 314 pp., £7.99, February 1993,
Malcolm X: The Great Photographs
compiled by Thulani Davis and Howard Chapnick.
Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 168 pp., £14.99, March 1993,1 55670 317 1 Show More
compiled by Thulani Davis and Howard Chapnick.
Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 168 pp., £14.99, March 1993,
“... The reviews and the hype hadn’t prepared me for Malcolm X at all. I expected it to be dull and worthy, a straight and long-winded retelling of a famous life. I found it lively, pretty dramatic, not all that much too long. It is a glossy parable of the sinner who came to virtue, found fame and power, was threatened and killed: the work, death and glorification of St Malcolm Martyr ... ”
