Tamara Payne

"The Dead are Arising" may be the best Malcolm X biography yet. But its author seems unsure of how to write about a religion outside the American mainstream.

A new book persuasively places Malcolm X and Martin Luther King at the center of each other’s most dramatic transformations.

At the end of his remarkable, improbable life, Malcolm X was on the cusp of a reinvention that might have been even more significant than his conversion.