America’s greatest living writer returns with a hilarious, scathing satire of the MAGA mindset.

The controversial new play from Ishmael Reed,Life Among the Aryansfollows John Shaw and Michael Mulvaney, two modern MAGA white supremacists as they leech off their wives, take orders from grifting Leader Matthews, and plot a unique way around the encroaching societal progress they fear will leave them in the dust. Full of page-turning dialogue, unexpected twists and hilarious asides, this is the latest urgent must-read from the greatest living American writer.

Originally performed at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe,Life Among the Aryanshas only grown in relevance, as the violence in Washington D.C. and state capitals around the country shines a light on the persistent unrest among a certain kind of American. A perfect counterpart to last year’sThe Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda, in which Reed investigated the darkness at the heart of Obama-era liberal piety,Life Among the Aryansis a searing, hopeful and above all joyous investigation of what it meant to live through the last four years (and what will come next).

Ishmael Reedis the author of over twenty-five books includingMumbo Jumbo,Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down,Conjugating Hindi,Why No Confederate Statues in Mexicoand most recentlyWhy the Black Hole Sings the BluesandThe Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda. He is also a publisher, television producer, songwriter, radio and television commentator, lecturer, and has long been devoted to exploring an alternative black aesthetic: the trickster tradition, or Neo-Hoodooism. A regular contributor toCounterPunchand founder of the Before Columbus Foundation, he taught at the University of California, Berkeley for over thirty years, retiring in 2005. Reed is the only person to be nominated for the National Book Award in two categories in the same year.

• Publisher:Archway Editions (December 20, 2022)
• Language:English
• Paperback:84 pages
• ISBN-10:1576879909
• ISBN-13:9781576879900
• Item Weight:8 ounces
• Dimensions:4.88 x 0.2 x 7 inches