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

• IntroductionSame Old Piano, Playing the BluesJustin A. JoyceFeature Essay“This Loaded Present”: Selma, 1963Davis W. HouckEssaysOn the Fugitive Radicalism of Jimmy’s BluesMarta WerbanowskaThe Architecture of Love in the Poetic Thinking of James Baldwin and Jericho Brown Joanna MakowskaGraduate Student Essay Award Winner“Love Is the Key”: James Baldwin’s Poethics of LoveEmanuela MalteseDispatchesJimmy’s Jubilee: A ReviewHerb Boyd“A Very Dangerous Effort”: James Baldwin’s Encounter with the BBC in 1963Robert J. CorberThe View from the Riverbank: James Baldwin and The Evidence of Things Not SeenHolly Lowe JonesMoment of Truth in Atlanta: James Baldwin Remembered (1989)Walter Lowe Jr.Bibliographic essay From A Furious Passage (1966) to Living in Fire (2019): A Review of Biographies about James BaldwinWilliam Henry Pruitt IIIInterview“You Know What’s Cool About James Baldwin, Man?”: An Interview with Cecil BrownMatt SandlerFrom the FieldComposing James Baldwin’s Joyful SongRashida K. Braggs with William Murray and Elijah Parks