<p>For bell hooks, the best cultural criticism sees no need to separate politics from the pleasure of reading. <i>Yearning</i> collects together some of hooks's classic and early pieces of cultural criticism from the '80s. Addressing topics like pedagogy, postmodernism, and politics, hooks examines a variety of cultural artifacts, from Spike Lee's film <i>Do the Right Thing</i> and Wim Wenders's film <i>Wings of Desire</i> to the writings of Zora Neale Hurston and Toni Morrison. The result is a poignant collection of essays which, like all of hooks's work, is above all else concerned with transforming oppressive structures of domination.</p>
