Al Alvarez’s most recent book is Risky Business, a selection of essays, many of which first appeared in The New York Review of Books.
Books
An African in Greenland
“Kpomassie is indisputably a man of extraordinary charm; he is also sharp and perceptive and honest?unencumbered by a sense of obligation to his hosts that might have prevented him from telling us what they are really like.”— Katherine Bouton, The Nation