The scholar Nicholas Boggs has a new perspective on James Baldwin. The new biography Baldwin: A Love Story considers how the ...

James Baldwin in London in 1964. A new biography focuses on the author's relationships.

"Baldwin: A Love Story" surpasses previous biographies of the author known for works including "Go Tell It on the Mountain." (Anthony Barboza / Getty Images) In Nicholas Boggs’ lively and vigorously ...

Nicholas Boggs’s new biography, “Baldwin: A Love Story,” places James Baldwin in the context of the people to whom he grew closest, not just romantic partners, like his first great love, the Swiss ...

An interviewer once asked James Baldwin if he’d ever write something without a message. “No writer who ever lived,” Baldwin said, “could have written a line without a message.” This is true. People ...

As a child in Harlem, James Baldwin (1924-1987) hewed to his family’s strict Baptist beliefs and would have known I Corinthians 13, the New Testament’s famous “love chapter,” verse by verse. Nicholas ...

All of James Baldwin's writings come back to one thing: love in the raw. No biographer since David Leeming, Baldwin's hand-selected Boswell, has better captured that basic truth of this essential ...

James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni are two of the most prolific Black writers of our time. Baldwin, known for his essays and novels, wrote about race and identity through the lens of someone who grew up ...

In the financial district of Manhattan, an A.I.-equipped typewriter, fueled by James Baldwin’s works, types back at you with answers to your questions.

"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 someone else, but by myself, and myself only.

Essayist, novelist and activist James Baldwin published a wide body of work, but wrote only two plays. One of them, "The Amen Corner," his only full-length work for theater, takes the stage this week ...

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