Publications

NON-FICTION

Review of Juneteenth by Van G. Garrett. New York Journal of Books, May 2023

Review of Life of Che: an impressionistic biography by Oesterheld, Breccia, and Breccia. New York Journal of Books, April 2022

“Rambling” in First and Wildest: The Gila at 100 – an anthology. Torrey House Press, April 2022

15 Best Places to Write in Silver City (co-author with Kris Neri, Ted Presler). Desert Exposure, October 2021.

Review of Within Our Grasp: Childhood Malnutrition Worldwide and the Revolution Taking Place to End It by Sharman Apt Russell. New York Journal of Books, May 2021.

The End of Hunger. pmpress.org, May 2021.

A Black Polymath Writes the Revolution. pmpress.org, April 2021.

Review of Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul? Essays by Jesse McCarthy. New York Journal of Books, March 2021.

‘Black and Blue: The Uses of Anger.’ The Bored Friday Project, September 2020.

‘Banned Books Week.’ pmpress.org, September 2020.

‘Reflections on Quarantine.’ Desert Exposure, July 2020.

Review of How to Pronounce Knife by Souvankham Thammavongsa. New York Journal of Books, April 2020.

Review of The Collector of Leftover Souls: Field Notes on Brazil’s Everyday Insurrections by Eliane Brum. New York Journal of Books, January 2020.

‘Critical thinking and problem solving in the ELT classroom’ in 21^st Century Skills for the ELT Classroom: A Guide for Teachers. Garnet Education, 2019.

Review of Abbott. New York Journal of Books, Nov 2018.

The Other 9/11: Chile in the Time of Pinochet. pmpress.org, 2018.

Review of The Instinct for Cooperation: A Graphic Novel Conversation with Noam Chomsky and Jeffrey Wilson. pmpress.org, 2018.

Review of The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse, ed. Marjorie Cohn. pmpress.org, 2018.

Review of Extracting Profit: Imperialism, Neoliberalism, and the New Scramble for Africa by Lee Wengraf. pmpress.org, 2018.

Review of ‘Human Flow: A Film’ by Ai WeiWei. pmpress.org, 2018.

‘English Language Teaching and Social Justice: Opportunities in a Time of Chaos.’ IATEFL 2017 Conference Selections, 2018.

Speakout Intermediate Plus Students’ Book, with Antonia Clare. Pearson Education, 2017.

Review of We are the People: Stories from the Community Rights Movement in the United States, by Anneke Campbell and Thomas Linzey. pmpress.org, 2017.

Review of The End of Imagination by Arundhati Roy. pmpress.org, 2017.

Review of Rad Women Worldwide by Kate Schatz, illustrated by Miriam Klein Stahl. pmpress.org, 2017.

“I don’t give refunds.” Eye-popping interviews with writers: PEN America Journal 2017. pmpress.org 2017.

Hatred and Pity: James Baldwin in “I Am Not Your Negro.”  pmpress.org, 2017.

Review of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe. pmpress.org, 2017.

An Interview with JJ Amaworo Wilson. ELTA Serbia Newsletter Jan-Feb, 2017.

‘Teaching is always political.’ ELT Gazette, 2017.

‘Micro Listening Skills’ in TESOL Encyclopedia of English language Teaching, ed. Reynanda. Liontas, 2017.

‘Macro Listening Skills’ in TESOL Encyclopedia of English language Teaching, ed. Reynanda. Liontas, 2017.

Review of The Football Factory by John King. pmpress.org, 2016.

The Other Damnificados: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond. pmpress.org, 2016.

Poet Mohammed al Ajami Released from Qatar Prison. pmpress.org, 2016.

Review of Frantz Fanon: The Militant Philosopher of Third Word Revolution by Leo Zeilig. pmpress.org, 2016.

‘Creativity and Language’ in Creativity in English Language Teaching, ed.s Xerri & Vassallo. ELT Council, 2016.

JJ Amaworo Wilson recommends Five Favorite Books from Latin America. Bookwitty, 2016.

JJ Amaworo Wilson Brings Magical Realism to Caracas’ Tower of David. Electric Literature, 2016.

Speakout, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, Advanced Students’ Book 2^nd edition, with Antonia Clare. Pearson, 2015.

Many Thousand Gone: New Orleans Ten Years On. pmpress.org, 2015.

Shakespeare in the Age of the Tyrant. pmpress.org, 2015.

Ngugi Wa Thiong’o: “The Scars of History Are on Every Writer.” pmpress.org, 2015.

Active Listening co-authored with Michael Rost. Routledge, 2013.

Total English New Edition, Intermediate, Advanced Students’ Books and Workbooks co-authored with Rachel Roberts and Antonia Clare. Pearson Education, 2013.

Speakout, Advanced Students’ Book and Workbook, with Antonia Clare. Pearson Education, 2012.

Interview for Spotlight magazine. Verlag, 2011.

Speakout, Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, Students’ Books and Workbooks, with Antonia Clare. Pearson Education 2011.

‘Myths, Mysteries and Mottoes.’ English Teaching Professional. November 2010.

‘Augusto Boal: Theatre of the Oppressed and ELT.’ Modern English Teacher. April 2010.

‘Strategies for Teaching and Learning Vocabulary.’ ESL Magazine, May/June, 2009.

‘Learning to Learn.’ Pearson Education, 2008.

‘Word Walls and Temples.’ Pearson Education, 2008.

Postcards 2^nd edition Levels 1, 2, 3, 4 and Teachers’ Book. (Series Editor.) Pearson Education, 2008.

How to Teach Listening. Pearson Education, 2008.

Review of Connecting Speaking and Listening. TESOL Quarterly, 2008.

Living English, with Antonia Clare. Pearson Education, 2006.

Total English, Intermediate, Advanced Students’ Books and Workbooks, with Antonia Clare. Pearson Education, 2005.

‘Letting go.’ English Teaching Professional, 2004.

Worldview, Level 4, with Antonia Clare. Pearson Education, 2002.

Language to Go. Upper Intermediate, with Antonia Clare. Pearson Education, 2002.

 

FICTION & POETRY

‘A Brief History of Dirty Water.’ Puerto del Sol, March 2022.

Nazaré: a novel. PM Press. September 2021.

‘The Guitar.’ Hands-Up Publications. 2021.

‘Nazaré.’ A Public Space. Fall 2020.

‘Six Epitaphs for the Jazz Man.’ The Bored Friday Project. July 2020.

‘When the rains came,’ Raise Up! TaylorMade, 2019.

Damnificados: a novel. PM Press, 2016.

‘The Tower.’ Literal Magazine, 2016.

‘Extract from Damnificados.’ The Turnaround blog, 2016.

Extract from Damnificados. O, The Oprah Magazine, 2015.

‘Police Report Following the Death of a Black Man.’ Justice Journal, CUNY, 2015.

‘A Long Shot.’ African American Review. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014.

‘Trash Wars.’ Mission at Tenth, 2014.

‘Stones.’ The Frogmore Papers. Frogmore Press, 2004.

‘Bring on the Martians, Kid.’ www.pulp.net 2003.

Extract from The Mango Club. main street journal, 2000.

‘Three Kings on a Rough Estate.’ territories. Jack Black Publications, 2000.

‘What I Found Amongst the Ruins.’ IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain. Penguin, 2000.

‘Johnny Can Sleep Easy Now.’ Afrobeat. Pulp Faction, 1999.

‘Cat.’ The Frogmore Papers. Frogmore Press, 1998.