Your Custom Text Here
Image 1: Playthell Benjamin. Photo Provided by Playthell Benjamin.
Image 2: Jason D. Joseph. Photo Provided by Jason D. Joseph
Image 3: The Staged Reading of Ishmael Reed’s Newest Play, “The Amanuensis at the Firestone Gallery in New York City, which ran from January 22-24, 2026. Photo by Bob Gore.
Image 4: The Staged Reading of Ishmael Reed’s Newest Play, “The Amanuensis at the Firestone Gallery in New York City, which ran from January 22-24, 2026. Photo by Bob Gore.
Image 5: The Staged Reading of Ishmael Reed’s Newest Play, “The Amanuensis at the Firestone Gallery in New York City, which ran from January 22-24, 2026. Photo by Bob Gore.
Image 6: The Staged Reading of Ishmael Reed’s Newest Play, “The Amanuensis at the Firestone Gallery in New York City, which ran from January 22-24, 2026. Photo by Bob Gore.
Image 7: The Staged Reading of Ishmael Reed’s Newest Play, “The Amanuensis at the Firestone Gallery in New York City, which ran from January 22-24, 2026. Photo by Bob Gore.
Image 8: The Staged Reading of Ishmael Reed’s Newest Play, “The Amanuensis at the Firestone Gallery in New York City, which ran from January 22-24, 2026. Photo by Bob Gore.
Image 9: The Staged Reading of Ishmael Reed’s Newest Play, “The Amanuensis at the Firestone Gallery in New York City, which ran from January 22-24, 2026. Photo by Bob Gore.
Image 10: The publication of three novels by William Demby should be regarded as the literary event of the year. A master of the Gothic, the decadent, and the macabre, Demby also possessed a self-deprecating sense of humor, though his deadpan delivery could cut like a guillotine. These qualities position him as the missing link between the Black modernists of the 1950s and the Black postmodernists of today. The Catacombs. William Demby, Introduction by Jeff Biggers. Vintage Press. Publication date 01/13/2026. $17.00
Image 11: A new book by Gerald Vizenor, one of America's most original writers. He's to English what Thelonius Monk is to music. Theater of Chance: Native Celebrities of Nothing in an Existential Colony. Gerald Vizenor. Wesleyan University Press. Publication date 02/04/2025. $19.95
Winter/Spring 2026 by Publisher
Behind the Grey Rhino, Part VI
by Vitin A. Cruz
Excerpt from If Love Were the Remedy
by Zanai West
Excerpt from The Gate of Might
by Jason D. Joseph
Rootwar: Calling Up the Legions
by Arthur Flowers
Excerpt from Anonymous Dancer
by Carla Blank
Four Poems by Jeffery Renard Allen
How He Knew She Was Truly Special To Him
by Miho Kinnas
Five Poems by E. Ethelbert Miller
Has a Thick Blood Clot
Covered the Dome of the Sky?
by Javid Naam
From Gaza to Minab by Julia Wright
Ed Sullivan for President
by Alison Mills Newman
Wambasganns Campaign of Hate
by Ali M. Collins
Ishmael Reed Interviews Playthell Benjamin:
“On the Follies of Dirty Donnie
and the Trumpanzees
They Were Against Black Voting from the Beginning
from The Complete Works of Thomas Dixon
