Darryl Pinckney
Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
From the Review
February 26, 2009: What He Really Said
December 18, 2008: Obama: In the Irony-Free Zone
November 6, 2008: A Fateful Election
July 17, 2008: Obama & the Black Church
March 20, 2008: The Appeal of Obama (letter)
March 6, 2008: Dreams from Obama
A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can't Win by Shelby Steele
February 14, 2008: On Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007)
August 16, 2007: Paris: The Black Maestro
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges:Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow by Gabriel Banat
June 14, 2007: The Visible Man
Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad
March 29, 2007: Black Wisdom
All Aunt Hagar's Children by Edward P. Jones
November 2, 2006: Branding in America
Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead
August 10, 2006: Barbara Epstein (1928–2006)
July 13, 2006: Blacking Up
Dancing in the Dark by Caryl Phillips
April 27, 2006: Zanzibar: Love and Exile
Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah
October 6, 2005: On Our Own
April 7, 2005: The Hunted
God's Gym by John Edgar Wideman
February 24, 2005: 'Blood on the Forge'
October 21, 2004: Gone with the Wind
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
December 4, 2003: Hate
Love by Toni Morrison
August 14, 2003: Correction (letter)
July 3, 2003: A Lost World
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies by Elizabeth McHenry
April 10, 2003: Escape Artist
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown edited and with an introduction by Richard Newman, and with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
September 26, 2002: The High Priestess of the Vernacular
Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States by Zora Neale Hurston, edited and with an introduction by Carla Kaplan, and a foreword by John Edgar Wideman
August 15, 2002: Having the Last Laugh
Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid
April 25, 2002: Harlem's Mystery Woman
The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen edited and with an introductionby Charles R. Larson
November 1, 2001: The Black American Tragedy
Richard Wright: The Life and Times by Hazel Rowley
March 29, 2001: Corrections (letter)
February 22, 2001: Beyond the Fringe
January 11, 2001: Riffs
Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray edited by Albert Murray and John F. Callahan
April 13, 2000: James Baldwin: The Risks of Love
James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories edited by Toni Morrison
November 19, 1998: The Magic of James Baldwin
James Baldwin: Collected Essays
May 15, 1997: The Drama of Ralph Ellison
Flying Home and Other Stories by Ralph Ellison, edited with an introduction by John F. Callahan
The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison edited with an introduction by John F. Callahan, preface by Saul Bellow
March 21, 1996: In the Black Room of the World
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
December 21, 1995: Slouching Toward Washington
May 11, 1995: Aristocrats
Daughters: On Family and Fatherhood by Gerald Early
Fatheralong: A Meditation on Fathers and Sons, Race and Society by John Edgar Wideman
Colored People: A Memoir by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study by W. E. B. Du Bois
No Day of Triumph by J. Saunders Redding
The Big Sea by Langston Hughes
Dust Tracks on a Road in Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writing by Zora Neale Hurston
The Negro Family: A Study of Family Origins Before the Civil War by E. Franklin Frazier
Black Bourgeoisie: The Rise of a New Middle Class in the United States by E. Franklin Frazier
Coming Up Down Home: A Memoir of a Southern Childhood by Cecil Brown
Pushed Back to Strength: A Black Woman's Journey Home by Gloria Wade-Gayles
April 20, 1995: Professionals
Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of Color—A Journey from Prison to Power by Patrice Gaines
Volunteer Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience by Jill Nelson
Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
Along This Way: The Autobiography of James Weldon Johnson Introduction by Sondra K. Wilson
In My Place by Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Warriors Don't Cry by Melba Beals
A Man's Life: An Autobiography by Roger Wilkins
Children of the Dream: The Psychology of Black Success by Audrey Edwards, by Craig K. Polite
The Rage of a Privileged Class: Why Do Prosperous Blacks Still Have the Blues? by Ellis Cose
Out of the Madness: From the Projects to a Life of Hope by Jerrold Ladd
Bourgeois Blues An American Memoir by Jake Lamar
April 6, 1995: Promissory Notes
Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White by Brent Staples
Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America by Nathan McCall
November 4, 1993: The Best of Everything
Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
Home Repairs by Trey Ellis
March 5, 1992: The Sweet Singer of Tuckahoe
My Soul's High Song: The Collected Writings of Countee Cullen, Voice of the Harlem Renaissance edited by Gerald Early
February 13, 1992: The Pretender Speaks
November 22, 1990: Keeping the Faith
Tearing Down the Color Bar: A Documentary History of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters by Joseph F. Wilson
A. Philip Randolph: Pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula F. Pfeffer
October 12, 1989: Trickster Tales
The Terrible Twos by Ishmael Reed
The Terrible Threes by Ishmael Reed
The Free-Lance Pallbearers: An Irreverent Novel by Ishmael Reed
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down by Ishmael Reed
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
The Last Days of Louisiana Red by Ishmael Reed
New and Collected Poems by Ishmael Reed
Writin' Is Fightin': Thirty-Seven Years of Boxing on Paper by Ishmael Reed
March 16, 1989: The Last New Negro
February 16, 1989: Suitcase in Harlem
The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I, 1902–1941: I, Too, Sing America by Arnold Rampersad
The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. II, 1941–1967: I Dream a World by Arnold Rampersad
August 18, 1988: The Honorary Negro
Letters of Carl Van Vechten selected and edited by Bruce Kellner
The Tattooed Countess: A Romantic Novel with a Happy Ending by Carl Van Vechten
Parties by Carl Van Vechten
Infants of the Spring by Wallace Thurman
January 21, 1988: On James Baldwin (1924–1987)
December 17, 1987: The Outsider
Claude McKay: Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance by Wayne F. Cooper
January 29, 1987: Black Victims, Black Villains
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Color Purple a film by Steven Spielberg
Reckless Eyeballing by Ishmael Reed
August 14, 1986: No 'Trust' (letter)
May 29, 1986: The New Romantics
Equal Distance by Brad Leithauser
Ransom by Jay McInerney
Family Dancing by David Leavitt
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
October 10, 1985: Advertising Counsel (letter)
June 27, 1985: A Not-So-Simple Heart
A Servant's Tale by Paula Fox
December 20, 1984: Sweet Evening Breeze
November 8, 1984: The Fast Lane
Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
Fish Tales by Nettie Jones
June 14, 1984: The Fire Last Time
The Autobiography of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka
April 28, 1983: Roots
Brown Girl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall, afterword by Mary Helen Washington
Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall
October 7, 1982: The Party's Over
This Was Harlem: A Cultural Portrait, 1900-1950 by Jervis Anderson
May 27, 1982: Slums of Empire
Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack by Austin Clarke
Crown Jewel by Ralph de Boissière
April 30, 1981: Every Which Way
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
March 5, 1981: Phantom
The Wayward and the Seeking: A Collection of Writings by Jean Toomer edited by Darwin T. Turner
December 6, 1979: Blues for Mr. Baldwin
Just Above My Head by James Baldwin
December 21, 1978: In Sorrow's Kitchen
Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography by Robert E. Hemenway
Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston, preface by Franz Boas
August 4, 1977: The Black Upper Class
Certain People: America's Black Elite by Stephen Birmingham
From New York Review Books
 | Blood on the Forge A savage vision of the Great Migration told through a bleak and harrowing story of three brothers. |
Books by Darryl Pinckney
Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature (2002)
High Cotton (1992)