"Like some secular Savonarola, Jonathan Kozol has railed against complacency for more than thirty years," wrote Newsweek's Ellis Cose. Kozol is a well-known activist and writer who has focused his wri...
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Critical Essay by Granville Hicks
[The elements of which "The Fume of Poppies" is made are] travel and sex, and Mr. Kozol writes about both with likable enthusiasm.
Young as he is, Mr. K...
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Critical Essay by Philip G. Altbach
[Free Schools is] a short, highly readable, and informative volume about the prospects for, and the problems of, free schools. The book consists basically of two th...
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Critical Essay by Toby Goldstein
[Free Schools is] an indispensable handbook for any group planning to establish a free school. [Kozol] aims it at the underprivileged, non-white people, the ones who c...
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Critical Essay by Vivian Gornick
Kozol's books are, essentially, a radical's indictment of the inequities inherent in American society. Not only are those inequities made manifest in eve...
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Critical Essay by Norman Solomon
The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home challenges current fashions of equivocal dissent and reform-minded "innovations." Those forces controlling publi...
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Critical Essay by Jeffrey Lant
[Jonathan Kozol] has not grown more conservative with age. Indeed, he is today far more the enfant terrible than he was in 1967…. Since then, in fact, Kozol has c...
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Critical Essay by Anne Nelson
[Children of the Revolution] retraces the [1961 Cuban literacy] campaign with the practiced eye of an educator, and then, startled and passionate, moves on to tell us how...
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Critical Essay by James Higgins
Jonathan Kozol's Children of the Revolution makes available to the people of the United States an account of a great human development which took place in Cuba a...
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Critical Essay by Jeff Greenfield
["Prisoners of Silence"] is a book with a clear, specific issue. In American society, where words are so critical, at least 25 million people are ...
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Critical Essay by Charles W. Mann, Jr.
Mr. Kozol shows me [in The Fume of Poppies] that I have underestimated the latent sexual impulse of the American coed. Mr. Kozol's graphic affair, one of ...
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Critical Essay by Richard Poirier
["Free Schools"] convincingly suggests that a school only becomes "free" when it creates around it a community of conscience about …...
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Critical Essay by Robert B. Nordberg
"Free Schools" is a sort of handbook for educational revolutionaries—a curiously unrevolutionary one. Mr. Kozol, having been through some of t...
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Imagine for a minute that one day you wake from a nights sleep to find nothing as it was, you don't know where you are, the people around you, or any aspect of your life that you were so sure of the n...
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In his book, Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope, Jonathan Kozol pulls back the veil and provides readers with a glimpse of the harsh conditions and unrelenting hope that exists in ...
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Deprived of Amazing Grace
Jonathan Kozol's book, Amazing Grace, analyzes the lives of the people living in the dilapidated district of South Bronx, New York. Kozol spends time touring the streets w...
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Jonathan Kozol
