Darryl Pinckney

Darryl Pinckney is the author of the novels High Cotton and Black Deutschland. His new collection, Busted in New York and Other Essays, has just been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Election 2020February 7, 2020

Tracking Down Mayor Pete’s Black Voter Problem

Listening to voters in his home state, our reporter discovers he’s queer for Buttigieg.

Darryl Pinckney
Gender and SexualityNovember 12, 2019

‘The Inheritance’ Takes E.M. Forster Out of the Closet

Bringing Howards End into today’s gay Manhattan, playwright Matthew Lopez shows that “Only Connect” is still a radical message.

Darryl Pinckney
BiographyJune 28, 2006

Shadows

George Hutchinson's new biography of the mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance reconsiders both Nella Larsen and a key moment of black cultural history.

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Darryl Pinckney

Election 2020February 7, 2020

Listening to voters in his home state, our reporter discovers he’s queer for Buttigieg.

Gender and SexualityNovember 12, 2019

Bringing Howards End into today’s gay Manhattan, playwright Matthew Lopez shows that “Only Connect” is still a radical message.

BiographyJune 28, 2006

George Hutchinson's new biography of the mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance reconsiders both Nella Larsen and a key moment of black cultural history.