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“... In​ his essay ‘The Guilty Vicarage’, W.H. Auden wrote that the detective’s job is ‘to restore the state of grace in which the aesthetic and the ethical are as one’. Death Takes Me stands in opposition to this formula. Cristina Rivera Garza’s decision to challenge the neatness of the detective story has its roots in the murder in July 1990 of her sister, Liliana, the subject of her Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir, Liliana’s Invincible Summer (2023 ...”

“... unexpectedly included the book in its curriculum for Black students. In 2000, the historian Robin D.G. Kelley, who knew Robinson (he was on Kelley’s dissertation committee), oversaw an American reissue, introducing Black Marxism to a wider audience. Since then, it has become an unlikely handbook for a new generation of radicals and activists.Robinson ...”