Bernard F. Conners, an Albany-area businessman and novelist, dies at 99 after a careers in pro football, the FBI, writing, ...

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.

He wrote with the kind of clarity that was as comforting as it was chastising. Here’s where to start. Credit...Jean-Regis Rouston/Roger Viollet, via Getty Images Supported by By Robert Jones Jr.

In 1950, James Baldwin and his lover, the painter Lucien Happersberger, set out from Paris for the mountains of Switzerland, where Baldwin, then around 25, hoped to climb his way out of a creative ...