Callaloo occupies a singular position in American letters: a journal founded to publish creative work by and critical studies of African Americans and peoples of African descent throughout the Diaspora, it has, for decades, treated the literary and the scholarly as inseparable registers of the same cultural project. Its pages regularly carry poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, interviews, visual art, and wide-ranging cultural criticism alongside peer-reviewed scholarship. A book review in Callaloo is therefore not a service item but a critical essay in miniature—an occasion to situate a new work within the traditions, arguments, and aesthetic genealogies the journal has helped to define. The general submission window runs from August 1, 2026 to May 1, 2027. There is no submission fee. Manuscripts must be double-spaced (poetry excepted) and submitted as Word (.doc or .docx) or .rtf files. Prose is advised not to exceed 6,000 words, excluding abstract and references in the case of scholarly articles, though the journal will consider pieces up to 10,000 words. Identifying information—name, address, phone number, email—must not appear in the manuscript, the submission title, or the file name, preserving the anonymity of the review process. For the critic, the terms of engagement are clear: Callaloo seeks reviews that do more than summarize. The journal's remit—studies of life and culture in the Black world, cultural criticism of wide range—invites reviewers to treat the book under consideration as a point of departure for larger arguments. The absence of a fee and the length of the reading period signal an editorial posture oriented toward the work itself rather than toward volume; the journal's history suggests that accepted reviews will be those that earn their place through precision, context, and critical stakes.