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