Bookworm, no. 136

Amanda Perry reviews Fred Anderson’s “Eyes Have Seen.” Emily Mernin on Ashraf Zaghal’s “Seven Heavens Away.” A page from “Richard Johnson.” Inside the March issue.

Rights Angle

Eyes Have Seen: From Mississippi to Montreal
Fred Anderson
Baraka Books
240 pages, softcover and ebook

Fred Anderson’s Eyes Have Seen provides a thrilling first-hand account of activism in the 1960s and ’70s. As a Black teenager in Mississippi, Anderson participated in the civil rights movement, only to find himself conscripted into the Vietnam …