A new generation of readers embraces bell hooks’ ‘All About Love’
By HILLEL ITALIE
AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — It’s the kind of book friends recommend to each other, especially if someone is going through a time of loneliness or romantic loss. The late bell hooks’ “All About Love” was published nearly a quarter century ago. But it’s found a new generations of readers who respond to its message of empathy and community. Scholars of hooks welcome her ongoing popularity but also worry that readers may miss her political message. M. Shadee Malaklou, who directs the bell hooks center at Berea College in Kentucky, says that hooks, as a feminist of color, was writing about a love for justice.
