James Baldwin

“What If We Weren’t Afraid to Tell the Hard Truths?” Chris Chalk on Playing James Baldwin

“Being Baldwin requires you to be free. It’s mandatory.”

 
By Dan Sheehan  February 21, 2024
The Hub

Unsurprisingly, George Santos doesn’t know who James Baldwin is.

By Jonny Diamond  December 19, 2023
Critical Race Theory

Black Lives Matter in the Classroom: A Roundtable on Teaching CRT and Disputed Literature Today

By Literary Hub  December 7, 2023
Drinking

Dwight Garner on the Long History of Writers and America’s Greatest Invention, the Martini

By Dwight Garner  October 25, 2023
Excerpt

Why Toni Morrison Left Publishing

By Dan Sinykin  October 24, 2023
Civil Rights

The Hidden Story of Black History and Black Lives Before the Civil Rights Movement

By Dylan C. Penningroth  October 4, 2023
James Baldwin

The Many Lessons from James Baldwin’s Another Country

By Carole Burns  September 18, 2023
In Conversation

“Code words to say what can’t be said”: James Hannaham Talks to a Writer in Solitary Confinement

By Moira Marquis  September 5, 2023
The Hub

Read the first reviews of every James Baldwin novel.

By Dan Sheehan  August 2, 2023
Queer Literature

The Lesser-Known Novel of the 1950s That Presaged Queer Liberation

By Cat Sebastian  June 1, 2023
The Hub

Chris Chalk will play James Baldwin in Capote’s Women.

By Dan Sheehan  March 28, 2023
On Race

The Ethics of Writing About Race as a White Woman

By Rachel Jamison Webster  March 21, 2023
Queer Literature

Growing Up Queer: A Coming-of-Age Reading List

By Richard Mirabella  March 15, 2023
Classic Literature

Henry Louis Gates Jr. on What Makes a “Classic” African American Text

By Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  January 31, 2023
Keen On

Forget Generative AI: Margaret Heffernan on Why the Future Remains Up To Us

By Keen On  January 26, 2023
Read This Watch That

What to Read Before and After Seeing James Baldwin Abroad

By Literary Hub  January 3, 2023
On Race

Confronting the South’s Tradition of Racist Terror

By Ousmane Power-Green  November 3, 2022
Queer Literature

The New, New Black Gay Renaissance

By Cary Alan Johnson  September 6, 2022
Syllabi

Back to School for Everyone: The Literature of Obsession with Julia May Jonas

By Julia May Jonas  September 6, 2022
Syllabi

Back to School for Everyone: Writers and the World with Viet Thanh Nguyen

By Viet Thanh Nguyen  September 6, 2022
The Hub

“It has absolutely nothing going for it, except Satan.” Read James Baldwin on The Exorcist.

By Emily Temple  August 2, 2022
Reading Lists

The Language of Loneliness: Five Books That Reckon With Not Belonging

By Paddy Crewe  June 30, 2022
Happy Pride

Anger, Joy, Resistance: Queer Readings For Pride Month

By Literary Hub  June 24, 2022
Literary History

“I do not like people whose principal aim is pleasure.” When James Baldwin Went to Fire Island

By Jack Parlett  June 14, 2022
Literary History

James Patterson Remembers the Time James Baldwin Fought Norman Mailer

By James Patterson  June 8, 2022
Inspiration

Why Writers Need to Confront and Create With Their Most Unpleasant Emotions

By Philip Schultz  June 8, 2022
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