Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and, in the Alain Locke Lecture Series, Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
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Big Changes in Black America?
May 24, 2012
Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means to Be Black Now
by Touré
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The Two Conversions of Malcolm X
September 29, 2011
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
by Manning Marable
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Invisible Black America
March 10, 2011
The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Race, Class, and Crime in America
by Charles J. Ogletree Jr.
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
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Jimmy Baldwin: Stirring the Waters
November 25, 2010
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
by James Baldwin, edited and with an introduction by Randall Kenan
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High and Low on Crack
October 14, 2010
Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man
by Bill Clegg
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On Elizabeth Hardwick
May 13, 2010
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What He Really Said
February 26, 2009
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Obama: In the Irony-Free Zone
December 18, 2008
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A Fateful Election
November 6, 2008
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Obama & the Black Church
July 17, 2008
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The Appeal of Obama
March 20, 2008
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Dreams from Obama
March 6, 2008
A Bound Man: Why We Are Excited About Obama and Why He Can’t Win
by Shelby Steele
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On Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007)
February 14, 2008
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Paris: The Black Maestro
August 16, 2007
The Chevalier de Saint-Georges:Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow
by Gabriel Banat
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The Visible Man
June 14, 2007
Ralph Ellison: A Biography
by Arnold Rampersad
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Black Wisdom
March 29, 2007
All Aunt Hagar’s Children
by Edward P. Jones
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Branding in America
November 2, 2006
Apex Hides the Hurt
by Colson Whitehead
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Barbara Epstein (1928–2006)
August 10, 2006
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Blacking Up
July 13, 2006
Dancing in the Dark
by Caryl Phillips
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Zanzibar: Love and Exile
April 27, 2006
Desertion
by Abdulrazak Gurnah
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On Our Own
October 6, 2005
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The Hunted
April 7, 2005
God’s Gym
by John Edgar Wideman
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‘Blood on the Forge’
February 24, 2005
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Gone with the Wind
October 21, 2004
The Known World
by Edward P. Jones
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Hate
December 4, 2003
Love
by Toni Morrison
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Correction
August 14, 2003
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A Lost World
July 3, 2003
Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies
by Elizabeth McHenry
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Escape Artist
April 10, 2003
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.
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The High Priestess of the Vernacular
September 26, 2002
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
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Having the Last Laugh
August 15, 2002
Mr. Potter
by Jamaica Kincaid
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Harlem’s Mystery Woman
April 25, 2002
The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen
edited and with an introductionby Charles R. Larson
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The Black American Tragedy
November 1, 2001
Richard Wright: The Life and Times
by Hazel Rowley
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Corrections
March 29, 2001
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Beyond the Fringe
February 22, 2001
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Riffs
January 11, 2001
Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray edited by Albert Murray and John F. Callahan
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James Baldwin: The Risks of Love
April 13, 2000
James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories
edited by Toni Morrison
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The Magic of James Baldwin
November 19, 1998
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The Drama of Ralph Ellison
May 15, 1997
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
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In the Black Room of the World
March 21, 1996
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
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Slouching Toward Washington
December 21, 1995
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Aristocrats
May 11, 1995
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
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Professionals
April 20, 1995
Laughing in the Dark: From Colored Girl to Woman of ColorA 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
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Promissory Notes
April 6, 1995
Parallel Time: Growing Up in Black and White
by Brent Staples
Makes Me Wanna Holler: A Young Black Man in America by Nathan McCall
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The Best of Everything
November 4, 1993
Waiting to Exhale by Terry McMillan
Home Repairs by Trey Ellis
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The Sweet Singer of Tuckahoe
March 5, 1992
My Soul’s High Song: The Collected Writings of Countee Cullen, Voice of the Harlem Renaissance edited by Gerald Early
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The Pretender Speaks
February 13, 1992
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Keeping the Faith
November 22, 1990
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
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Trickster Tales
October 12, 1989
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
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The Last New Negro
March 16, 1989
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Suitcase in Harlem
February 16, 1989
The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I, 19021941: I, Too, Sing America by Arnold Rampersad
The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. II, 19411967: I Dream a World by Arnold Rampersad
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The Honorary Negro
August 18, 1988
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
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On James Baldwin (1924–1987)
January 21, 1988
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The Outsider
December 17, 1987
Claude McKay: Rebel Sojourner in the Harlem Renaissance by Wayne F. Cooper
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Black Victims, Black Villains
January 29, 1987
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Color Purple a film by Steven Spielberg
Reckless Eyeballing by Ishmael Reed
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No ‘Trust’
August 14, 1986
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The New Romantics
May 29, 1986
Equal Distance
by Brad Leithauser
Ransom
by Jay McInerney
Family Dancing by David Leavitt
Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
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Advertising Counsel
October 10, 1985
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A Not-So-Simple Heart
June 27, 1985
A Servant’s Tale by Paula Fox
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Sweet Evening Breeze
December 20, 1984
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The Fast Lane
November 8, 1984
Bright Lights, Big City
by Jay McInerney
Fish Tales by Nettie Jones
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The Fire Last Time
June 14, 1984
The Autobiography of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka
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Roots
April 28, 1983
Brown Girl, Brownstones
by Paule Marshall, afterword by Mary Helen Washington
Praisesong for the Widow by Paule Marshall
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The Party’s Over
October 7, 1982
This Was Harlem: A Cultural Portrait, 1900-1950 by Jervis Anderson
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Slums of Empire
May 27, 1982
Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack by Austin Clarke
Crown Jewel by Ralph de Boissière
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Every Which Way
April 30, 1981
Tar Baby by Toni Morrison
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Phantom
March 5, 1981
The Wayward and the Seeking: A Collection of Writings by Jean Toomer
edited by Darwin T. Turner
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Blues for Mr. Baldwin
December 6, 1979
Just Above My Head by James Baldwin
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In Sorrow’s Kitchen
December 21, 1978
Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography by Robert E. Hemenway
Mules and Men by Zora Neale Hurston, preface by Franz Boas
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The Black Upper Class
August 4, 1977
Certain People: America’s Black Elite by Stephen Birmingham
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Misremembering Martin Luther King
December 15, 2011
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The Consequences to Come
September 24, 2008
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The Consequences to Come
September 24, 2008
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James Fenton interviewed by Robyn Creswell
May 17, 2012, 7 pm
Robyn Creswell, the poetry editor of The Paris Review, and a fellow at the New York Public Library’s Cullman Center, will interview the poet James Fenton on stage at the New York Pubic Library.