12/2002

Interview
James Earl Hardy
Joyce Palmer

Gwendolyn Brooks Writers’ Conference
Anthologies

Excerpt
Greenwichtown by Joyce Palmer

Reviews
Approaching the Center by Myronn Hardy
Bird At My Window by Rosa Guy
Chester Himes: A Life by James Sallis
Erasure by Percival Everett
The Fire of the Origins by Emmanuel Dongala
Here’s To You, Jesusa by Elena Poniatowska
Juice by Renee Gladman
Living with Music: Ralph Ellison’s Jazz Writings by Ralph Ellison
My Grandmother’s Erotic Folktales by Robert Antoni
A Negro Explorer At the North Pole by Matthew Henson
Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word by Randall Kennedy
Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men Speak Out on Law, Justice, and Life by Jabari Asim
Soledad by Angie Cruz
Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Thinking Booker T. by Houston Baker