James Baldwin Review

Douglas Field is Professor of Twentieth Century American Literature at the University of ManchesterJustin A. Joyce is Research Associate at Emory University, Atlanta, GeorgiaDwight A. McBride is Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

• 1 Introduction: Celebrating Our Current “Baldwin Moment” - Dwight A. McBride Feature Essay2 The Magician’s Serpent: Race and the Tragedy of American Democracy - Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. Essays3 What “No Chart Can Tell Us”: Ordinary Intimacies in Emerson, Du Bois, and Baldwin - Prentiss Clark 4 Strangers in the Village: James Baldwin, Teju Cole, and Glenn Ligon - Monika GehlawatGraduate Student Essay Award5 Beyond Understanding: James Baldwin’s Pragmatist Aesthetics - Rohan GhatageMulti-Media Feature6 Time is Now: Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin’s America - Makeda BestDispatches7 Sitting at Baldwin’s Table - Lindsey R. Swindall8 Baldwin This Time: An Excerpt from Bill V. Mullen’s New Biography, James Baldwin: Living in Fire, and an Interview with the Author - Bill V. Mullen9 “We can love one another in other ways”: Collaborating with James Baldwin on a Screenplay ofGiovanni’s Room - Michael RaeburnBibliographic Essay10 Trends in James Baldwin Criticism, 2015–16 - Jenny M. JamesReviews11 “Oceans of Love”: A Review of Hilton Als’ God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin - Leah Mirakhor12 Romancing Beale Street - Robert J. Corber13 A Star-Cross’d Nation: If Beale Street Could Talk, 2019 - Bill SchwarzFrom the Field14 James Baldwin: Interventions: A Session at the 2019 Modern Language Association Convention - Robert Jackson, Sharon P. Holland, and Shawn Salvant