This book "collects interview and conversations which contribute substantially to an understanding and clarification of James Baldwin's personality and perspect

Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin “I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by some

"This literary biography takes its title from a slave novel that Baldwin planned but never finished. Elegantly written, candid, and original, Talking at the Gat

A stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so vividly hum

From one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century—an extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies that powerfully