Art
April, 1973
"And now we have the Malcolm Legend," mourns Peter Goldman in a sensitive retelling of The Death and Life of Malcolm X (Harper & Row), "his gifts and flaws and passions and private ironies ... all smoothed flat and stylized, like the holy men burning coolly in a Byzantine icon." Goldman's Malcolm is neither holy nor wholly profane, but rather a man in combat with his private demons. We see Malcolm the young Harlem tough, hustling, pimping, sniffing coke; Malcolm the convict,...
