Introduction: Know Whence You Came – Justin A. Joyce
Feature Essays
Monster in the Archive – Robert F. Reid-Pharr
Notes on Hotel Camp: Sontag Meets Baldwin in Giovanni’s Room – William J. Maxwell
“The Confrontation”: James Baldwin’s Tour for CORE, May 1963 – Ed Pavlic
JB in California, May 7, 1963
“These Things We Sort of Know”: Speech at U.C. Berkeley – James Baldwin
A Conversation with James Baldwin, May 7, 1963 – Elsa Knight Thompson and John Leonard
“The Level of a Confrontation”: Speech at San Francisco Masonic Temple – James Baldwin
Essays
James Baldwin’s Psychoanalysis – Dorothy Stringer
Preaching Without a Pulpit: Toward a Womanist Hermeneutic of Regeneration in Just Above My Head – Melanie R. Hill
James Baldwin’s Hypothetical Novel: “Ignorant Armies” and the Making of Another Country – Nicholas Bredie
Graduate Student Essay Award Winner
Translating le vrai americain: Multilingualism in Henry James’s The Ambassadors and James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room – Jimin Kang
Eulogies
A Brother’s Love – Maya Angelou
Jimmy! – Amiri Baraka
Remembering James Baldwin – Ernest A. Champion
Life in His Language – Toni Morrison
Jimmy in the House – William Styron
Remembrances, Reflections, Inspirations
81 Horatio Street: Jimmy was Here – Trevor Baldwin
James Baldwin: In Theory and Beyond – Lawrie Balfour
Politics – Nicholas Boggs
What’s Coming on Down the Line! – Jennifer DeVere Brody
The Great Force of History – Lonnie G. Bunch III
James Baldwin’s Reflection on Masculinity in America: Poetics of the Color Line – Frieda Ekotto
Running toward Fear – Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
Finding Jimmy, Waiting for Giovanni – Jewelle Gomez
Becoming a Biographer of James Baldwin – David Leeming
Founding the James Baldwin Collective – Samuel Legitimus
“Extract” – Glenn Ligon
My Honeysuckle Victory – David Linx
Seeing James Baldwin through a Black Photographic Lens – Irma McClaurin
The End of Safety – Fahamu Pecou
Absorbing Brilliance: Rediscovering Baldwin’s Essays – Lauren Rusk
On Teaching Baldwin – William J. Spurlin
Everybody Loves Jimmy Now – Rinaldo Walcott
Interview
“James Baldwin, Return of the Prophet”: An Interview – Cornel West
Dispatch
Sedat Pakay’s Photographs of James Baldwin in Istanbul – Donald Spanel
From the Field
Collected Roundtable Provocations on I Heard It Through the Grapevine
“There Are No Signs”: I Heard It Through the Grapevine and Donald Glover’s Atlanta – Simon Abramowitsch
Movements Never Stay Still – Douglas Field
Style in the Face of Sorrow – Monika Gehlawat
I Heard It Through the Grapevine: The Language of the Streets, Blues Literature, and the Church: Commentary on James Baldwin’s 1982 film – Melanie R. Hill
The Dirge and the Second Line: A Meditation on Grapevine and Eyes Inspired by “Old Lem” – Josslyn J. Luckett
Not a Sociologist: James Baldwin’s Evolving Role in the Early 1980s – D. Quentin Miller
Youth, Violence, and Queer Futurity in I Heard It Through the Grapevine – Jared O’Connor
On the Road with Baldwin – Hayley O’Malley
Demons be Damned! – Robert F. Reid-Pharr
Their Whole World in Our Hands: Baldwin’s Responsibility to Children – J. Kenneth Stuckey
Of the Sorrow Songs: Baldwin, Vérité, Hope – Karen Thorsen
Bibliographic Essay
James Baldwin in the USSR and Post-Soviet Countries, 1970s–2010s – Yuri Stulov
Archival Sources Overview
Baldwin Archival Repositories