James Baldwin Review

Douglas Field is Professor of Twentieth Century American Literature at the University of ManchesterJustin A. Joyce is Research Director at The New School, New York CityDwight A. McBride is President of The New School, New York City

• Introduction: 1 To Minimize the Bill That They Must PayJustin A. JoyceFeature Essay: 2 The Great Debate: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Civil Rights RevolutionNicholas BuccolaEssays:3 “The Shape of the Wrath to Come”: James Baldwin’s Radicalism and the Evolution of His Thought on IsraelNadia Alahmed4 Birthing a New World: Black Women as Surrogates of Liberation in James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk Marquita R. Smith5 Chagrin d’amour: Intimacy, Shame, and the Closet in Giovanni’s Room Monica B. PearlGraduate Student Essay Award Winner: 6 Baldwin’s Kitchen: Food and Identity in His Life and FictionEmily NaGraduate Student Essays:7 The Warrior and the Poet: On James Baldwin and the Many Roles in RevolutionNicholas Binford8 Baptism by History: Reading James Baldwin’s Existential Hindsight in Go Tell It on the Mountain Miller WilbournDispatch:9 The Disorder of Life: James Baldwin on My ShoulderKaren ThorsenBibliographic Essay:10 Trends in Baldwin Criticism, 2016–17Joseph VogelReview:11 Symposium Review: “In a Speculative Light: The Arts of James Baldwin and Beauford Delaney,” Knoxville, Tennessee, 19–21 February 2020D. Quentin MillerFrom the Field:12 Baldwin’s Transatlantic Reverberations: Between “Stranger in the Village” and I Am Not Your NegroJovita dos Santos Pinto, Noémi Michel, Patricia Purtschert, Paola Bacchetta, Vanessa Naef13 Rebranding James Baldwin and His Queer Others: A Session at the 2019 American Studies Association ConferenceMagdalena J. Zaborowska, Nicholas F. Radel, Nigel Hatton, & Ernest L. Gibson III