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African American authors

Campaign Literature

By Thomas Chatterton Williams,

From a certain angle, Donald Trump’s presidency may not have moved the United States in entirely the wrong direction. One of the few areas to benefit from his stewardship, the…

Solo Act

By Thomas Chatterton Williams,

A decade ago, when my fiancée and I were living in a semilegal converted nylon factory in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and I’d just published my first book—a coming-of-age memoir into which…

And Red All Over

By William J. Maxwell,

From the FBI file on Lloyd Louis Brown, who wrote the prison novel Iron City (1951), edited several Communist journals, and coauthored Paul Robeson’s autobiography, Here I Stand. The file…

Bright lights, big speeches

By Randy Boyagoda,

Ralph Ellison and the perils of publicity

After Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, the Preface

Art by Jeff Wall,

Black letters on a white page

By Vince Passaro,

In a new compendium of African American literature, a world of politics

New black writers

By Irving Howe,

“A very stern discipline”

By James Thompson, Lenox Raphael, Steve Cannon,

An interview with Ralph Ellison

Letters from a journey

By James Baldwin,

Introductory note

By Robert P. Mills,

Me and my House . . .

By James Baldwin,