Joel Rhone Joel Rhone is a PhD student in English Language and Literature at the University of Chicago, where he specializes in African American letters after 1945.

Bringing It Back to Baldwin | Myth, Memoir, and America’s Racial Reckoning

Joel Rhone

With Eddie Glaude Jr.’s Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, the recent surplus of James Baldwin features has grown another monograph larger. Begin Again quickly climbed bestseller lists, earning a number of glowing reviews — hardly surprising, given that, over these past few years, Baldwin has certainly been back in vogue. This summer, we may have reached peak Baldwin: Instagram was rife with the...