Othello Blues

This prophetically witty and politically charged novelistic rewriting of Shakespeare is only possible through the guerrilla imagination of Jaffe. --Jeffrey Di Leo Othello Blues is a bewildering work of ingenuity by a major force in innovative fiction. Shakespeare’s blank verse is transformed into such a felicitous, rhythmic language that it has a percussive, mesmerizing effect. Jaffe's novel not only provides a rare literary enjoyment, it is a heuristic inquiry about the new world order. --Faruk Ulay