“Around 10 o’clock Muhammad Ali entered the ring. The audience in the the theatre rose to its feet and cheered. Actually, they said, 'Ali bomaye.' ['Ali, kill him.'] The tribal spirit is very contagious”
Originally published November 7, 1974
For Muhammad Ali’s birthday, we look back on Jamaica Kincaid’s coverage of the Ali-Foreman fight
Originally published November 7, 1974
‘My sexual education was limited to imagination, Google, the great novels of the mid-twentieth century, and the horny men who wrote them’
May 31, 2018