The Quiet Ear (Hogarth/Weidenfeld and Nicholson) by Raymond Antrobus maps and documents the author’s life in deafness, reframing that reality not as a detriment, but as an aid. Antrobus, of English and Jamaican parentage, details his diagnosis of deafness at the age of four, and the frequent societal disbelief—or worse, scorn—in which his condition was held. Chronicling the decline of deaf education in British school systems, Antrobus simultaneously shows how his own deafness resides alongside, and influences, his positions on race, masculinity, class and creative work. Accounts of prominent D/deaf cultural figures, from poets to actors to painters, also pervade the memoir.