Journalism, 2020-:

“Twentieth-century Fox: Albert Murray was a Bard of America’s Racial Complexity” The Economist, August 20, 2020: https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2020/08/20/albert-murray-was-a-bard-of-americas-racial-complexity

Keane, Tim. “Albert Murray Talking Modernism, Race, and Jazz.” Hyperallergic, September 19, 2020: https://hyperallergic.com/albert-murray-talking-modernism-race-and-jazz/

Fasman, Jon. “Plot Twist Newsletter: What to Read to Celebrate America at 250.” The Economist, July 2, 2026: https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/07/02/plot-twist-newsletter-what-to-read-to-celebrate-america-at-250

Mattison, Alice. “When Someone Wants to Publish Your Correspondence with a Famous Writer.” Literary Hub, July 13, 2026: https://lithub.com/when-someone-wants-to-publish-your-correspondence-with-a-famous-writer/

Scholarship, 2020-:

Devlin, Paul. “Albert Murray after 1962.” Ralph Ellison in Context. Ed. Paul Devlin. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Taylor, Paul C. “Albert Murray Beyond Plight and Blight.” African American Literature in Transition, 1960-1970. Ed. Shelley Eversley. Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Devlin, Paul and Benji de la Piedra. “Albert Murray’s Approach to Oral Art History: An Epistolary Exploration.” Archives of American Art Journal 62.2 (Fall 2023).

Anderson, Nicholas. “It Don’t Mean a Thing: Albert Murray’s Critique of the Social Sciences and the Politics of the Blues Idiom.” American Political Thought 14.3 (Summer 2025).