A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, "Soledad Brother" is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion that filled black men in America's prisons in the 1960s. But even removed from the social and political firestorms of the 1960s, Jackson's story still resonates for its portrait of a man taking a stand even while locked down.

Starting in 1970, Jean Genet--petty thief, prostitute, modernist master--spent two years in the Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan. Always an outcast himself, Genet was drawn to this displaced people, an attraction that was to prove as complicated for him as it was enduring. Prisoner of Love, written some ten years later, when many of the men Genet had known had been killed, and he himself was dying, is a beautifully observed description of that time and those men as well as a reaffirmation of the author's commitment not only to the Palestinian revolution but to rebellion itself. For...

Jean Genets Schauspiel "Die Zofen", in dessen Verlauf die beiden Dienstboten Claire und Solange in Abwesenheit der "Gndigen Frau" ein wechselseitiges Rollenspiel aufnehmen und sich den mit Gardenal versetzten Lindenbltentee reichen, erlebte in Deutschland 1957 im Bonner Contrakreis seine deutsche Erstauffhrung und wurde in der Folge hundertfach, auch mit mnnlicher Besetzung, in der vorliegenden bersetzung von Gerhard Hock gespielt.

Excerpts from the novels, plays, and poems of the French convict, prostitute, and literary artist join notes from his film, The Penal Colony, letters, essays, and a rare interview, all edited by a contemporary biographer.