The Sweet Life of Sidney Mintz
Sarah Hill
I Can’t Breathe
Anne Fausto-Sterling
Forum: Black Study, Black Struggle
Robin D. G. Kelley
With responses from Derecka Purnell, Randall L. Kennedy, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Christopher Lebron, Barbara Ransby, Shana L. Redmond, Charlene Carruthers, Aaron Bady, and Michael Eric Dyson. Kelley replies.
Ode to Long Johns
Joshua Bennett
Ferguson
Major Jackson
A Modern Marriage
Grace Oluseyi
Matters of Choice
Stephen Kinzer interviews Andrew J. Bacevich
The Racist Dawn of Capitalism
Peter James Hudson
Predicament
Armando Jaramillo Garcia
Natural History
Camille T. Dungy
Machinations of Wicked Men
Jonathan David Kirshner
Reviewed:
Kissinger, 1923-1968: The Idealist
by Niall Ferguson. Penguin Press, 2015.
Elegy for Prison
Joshua Bennett
The Roots of Black Incarceration
Joy James
Reviewed:
The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
by Austin Reed, ed. Caleb Smith. Random House, 2016.
Poet’s Sampler
Lynne Procope introduced by Ross Gay
They Want that New New World
Carina del Valle Schorske
Reviewed:
She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks
by M. NourbeSe Philip. Wesleyan University Press, 2015.
Cluster at Jawlight
Amy Newlove Schroeder
The End of Gender
erica kaufman
Reviewed:
I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975-2014
by Eileen Myles. Ecco/HarperCollins, 2015.
MicroReviews
Reviewed:
Heliopause
by Heather Christle. Wesleyan University Press, 2015.
I’m Your Huckleberry
by Erika Jo Brown. Brooklyn Arts Press, 2014.
Monetized
by Alissa Quart. Miami University Press, 2015.
Top 40
by Brandon Brown. Roof Books, 2014.
Torn from the Sun
by Gregory Donovan. Red Hen Press, 2015.
A Better Self
Alan A. Stone
Von Freeman
John Koethe