The Terrible Fours
After a wait of more than three decades, we have a new installment of Ishmael Reed’s The Terribles. Long intended to be a trilogy, if my recall of a Reed interview is correct, the first entry was the 1982 The Terrible Twos, a futuristic take on matters such as Christmas commercialism, ethnocentrism, settler colonialism, environmentalism, religion, and Washington politics---all conveyed through the metaphor of ruling-class America as a two-year-old, impulsive, selfish, always