Outside the Law: Narratives on Justice in America

by Porter Shreve (Editor), Susan Richards Shreve

A collection of recent articles on justice and the judicial system written by Clarence Page, John Edgar Wideman, Alex Kotlowitz, Julia Alvarez, and others covers such topics as the O. J. Simpson trial, gay rights, and affirmative action.

196 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1997

About the author

Porter Shreve grew up in Washington, DC, and has lived in over a dozen states. His novels — The Obituary Writer, Drives Like a Dream, When the White House Was Ours, and The End of the Book — have been on best of the year lists in many newspapers and magazines including the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York Times.

Co-editor of six anthologies, he has published fiction, nonfiction, Op-Eds and book reviews in Salon, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle.

He is Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Reviews

[Ross · Rating 3 out of 5]

It sounds like a forgettable rogue-cop movie from the 80's (perhaps starring Steven Seagal), but this is really a series of well-thought-out essays, mostly by non-lawyers and from a left-leaning perspective, on the various meanings of justice.