Douglas Field is Professor of Twentieth Century American Literature at the University of Manchester

Justin A. Joyce is Managing Editor of James Baldwin Review

Dwight A. McBride is Gerald Early Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis

Introduction: Commission, Omission, and Abdication – Justin A. Joyce
Feature Essay
Achieving Our Country: James Baldwin and US Politics Today – Hortense Spillers
Essays
Out of the Shadow of Shakespeare: A Play Version of Giovanni’s Room – Yuri Nagira
“Your Testimony, As You Can Imagine, Counts for Nothing”: Narration, Speculation, and Witness in Baldwin’s Fiction – Tyrone R. Simpson II
“Both Scathing and at the Same Time, Loving”: Reading Baldwin’s Fiery Language in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy – Emiko Dodo
Graduate Student Essay Award Winner
James Baldwin in Switzerland: Love, Artistic Becoming, and the Geography of Black Identity – Mattia Ferraro
Interviews
Escaping Myth with David Leeming: An Interview – Amy Foley
“Love, Jimmy”: James Baldwin’s Letters to David Moses—A Conversation – Frank Leon Roberts
Dispatches
Bringing Baldwin’s “Private and Public Lives in Something Resembling Alignment”?A Review of Nicholas Boggs'Baldwin: A Love Story – Remo Verdickt
Baldwin’s Lifelong Attention to Love: A Review ofBaldwin: A Love StorybyNicholas Boggs– Zachary Manditch-Prottas
WhatWe Talk About When We Talk About Humanism:On MagdalenaZaborowska’sJames Baldwin: The Life Album – Nicholas Glastonbury
“Fever and No Delight”: A Review Essay on Quintessence Theater’s Giovanni’s Room– Rich Blint
“A Rich Confusion”: AdamShatz(Mis)Reads James Baldwin– John Livesey
On Baldwin’s Resonance:Listening Again toThe Tongue and the Lash – Lauren Eldridge Stewart
From the Field
“This Is Where We Met, 400 Years Ago”: James Baldwin at the Limits of Diaspora. A panel at the 2025 Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) Conference
From Closed Origins to Hybrid Home: Baldwin’s African Encounters in Europe and the Making of an American Identity – Laila Amine
James Baldwin and Francophone Black Intellectuals: Reassessing Some of Their Disagreements – El Hadji Sambda Amadou Diallo
Baldwin, the Diaspora, and the Critical Documentarian – Walton Muyumba
Forty and Four Hundred Years Ago: Meeting Baldwin’s Pan-Africanism – William J. Maxwell
Late Style/ Africa– Dagmawi Woubshet
Bibliographic Essay
James Baldwinism Now: A Short History of the Baldwin Revival, 1998–2024 – William J. Maxwell