James Baldwin matters. To veteran Baldwin admirers, his renewed prominence comes as a surprise after decades of indifference.

James Baldwin was a preacher in his teen years. Baldwin’s mother, Emma Jones, never told him about his biological father. He ...

Jacqueline Mulhallen marks the centenary of one of the most remarkable writers of the 20th century, whose experience of race, ...

The NAC Ballroom at City College held an electric event of joy and inspiration for one of Harlem’s favorite sons: James Baldwin.

James Baldwin, one of America’s most influential ... including mentor and father figure Beauford Delaney. Delaney introduced Baldwin to the vibrant cultural and artistic scene of Greenwich ...

His father—who, as Baldwin would discover later in life ... becoming a devotee of the books of Henry James, whose long, comma-filled sentences left their mark on the young writer’s work.

Through tracing Baldwin’s working relationship with my father, former editor of Playboy magazine Walter Lowe Jr ... Akiman, Özge Özbek, “‘Forging a New Language’: A New Spatiotemporal Logic in James ...

James Baldwin's breakthrough essay collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his experiences of Paris, they capture the ...