Introduction:
1 To Minimize the Bill That They Must Pay
Justin A. Joyce

Feature Essay:
2 The Great Debate: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Civil Rights Revolution
Nicholas Buccola

Essays:
3 “The Shape of the Wrath to Come”: James Baldwin’s Radicalism and the Evolution of His Thought on Israel
Nadia Alahmed
4 Birthing a New World: Black Women as Surrogates of Liberation in James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk
Marquita R. Smith
5 Chagrin d’amour: Intimacy, Shame, and the Closet in Giovanni’s Room
Monica B. Pearl

Graduate Student Essay Award Winner:
6 Baldwin’s Kitchen: Food and Identity in His Life and Fiction
Emily Na

Graduate Student Essays:
7 The Warrior and the Poet: On James Baldwin and the Many Roles in Revolution
Nicholas Binford
8 Baptism by History: Reading James Baldwin’s Existential Hindsight in Go Tell It on the Mountain
Miller Wilbourn

Dispatch:
9 The Disorder of Life: James Baldwin on My Shoulder
Karen Thorsen

Bibliographic Essay:
10 Trends in Baldwin Criticism, 2016–17
Joseph Vogel

Review:
11 Symposium Review: “In a Speculative Light: The Arts of James Baldwin and Beauford Delaney,” Knoxville, Tennessee, 19–21 February 2020
D. Quentin Miller

From the Field:
12 Baldwin’s Transatlantic Reverberations: Between “Stranger in the Village” and I Am Not Your Negro
Jovita dos Santos Pinto, Noémi Michel, Patricia Purtschert, Paola Bacchetta, Vanessa Naef
13 Rebranding James Baldwin and His Queer Others: A Session at the 2019 American Studies Association Conference
Magdalena J. Zaborowska, Nicholas F. Radel, Nigel Hatton, & Ernest L. Gibson III