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The Fire This Time—The Legacy of James Baldwin

His work fell foul of civil-rights-era binary racial and sexual politics but, as a new film shows, now Baldwin’s ideas are used to explain everything from Trump to Black Lives Matter

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Giovanni’s Room

In the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and conventional morality.

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

An African American teen has an explosive relationship with his tyrannical religious fanatic stepfather in 1930s Harlem.

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Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone

A major work of American literature that powerfully portrays the anguish of being Black in a society that at times seems poised on the brink of total racial war. At the height of his theatrical career, the actor Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack.

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity.

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Just Above My Head

The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this stunning, unforgettable novel.

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Another Country

Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, Another Country is a novel of passions—sexual, racial, political, artistic—that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by...

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