James Baldwin, Los Angeles, California, 1964.
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James Baldwin’s Complicated Relationship with Psychoanalysis

Baldwin criticized Freudian thinking yet drew on ideas like repression in his fiction and essays.
Giovanni's Room, Philadelphia
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Book Club Made Me Gay

Book clubs and reading groups have long been important to marginalized communities.
James Baldwin
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Why James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time Still Matters

For James Baldwin (1924-1987), the fundamental premises of American society needed revisiting. How we might view #BlackLivesMatter through his lens.
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“Between the World and Me”: Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Legacy of James Baldwin

Toni Morrison has compared writer Ta-Nehisi Coates to James Baldwin; find out why here.