London heights and lows
Johann Hari in Slate on Jack London's brilliance, heroic radicalism and stinking racism, reviewing James L. Haley's new biography.
In his 40 years of life, he was a "bastard" child of a slum-dwelling suicidal spiritualist, a child laborer, a pirate, a tramp, a revolutionary Socialist, a racist pining for genocide, a gold-digger, a war correspondent, a millionaire, a suicidal depressive, and for a time the most popular writer in America.
For my old review of The Iron Heel, see here.
