“The Rockpile,” James Baldwin

Dinaw Mengestu on American Writers Who Have Astounded, Moved, Haunted, and Influenced Him

Forthcoming: Fall 2024

Moby-Reddick: Merve Emre on John A. Williams’s Great American Novel

Black Writers in Paris, the FBI, and a Lost 1960s Classic: Rediscovering The Man Who Cried I Am

Reading James Baldwin Now: Darryl Pinckney on No Name in the Street

Reading James Baldwin Now: Farah Jasmine Griffin on “Sonny’s Blues”

Reading James Baldwin Now: Eddie Glaude, Jr., on “The White Man’s Guilt”

Lighting the way: 2022 National Black Writers Conference documents resilience and resistance

Reading James Baldwin Now: Professional Development Resources for Educators

Reading James Baldwin Now: Gabrielle Bellot on If Beale Street Could Talk

Harold Bloom and the American Canon from Emerson to Toni Morrison

Freedom Riders: Terror and profundity in eyewitness history of an epochal era

Baldwin and Merwin: Matthew Zapruder’s guiding spirits in Father’s Day

Remembering Toni Morrison’s friendship with James Baldwin

Gabrielle Bellot: James Baldwin as “a prophet of love” in If Beale Street Could Talk

New exhibitions humanize three twentieth century writers

James Baldwin on hearing Martin Luther King preach in Montgomery

Coming attractions: A little Moonlight shines on Beale Street

James Baldwin: Sentences like no one else

Cheston Knapp: Weird, feral Ralph Waldo Emerson, wily William Gass, and other influences on Up Up, Down Down

James Baldwin: Some degrees of separation

Sara Jaffe: From James Baldwin to Lynne Tillman—four influences on Dryland

From Billie Holiday to Billy Preston, James Baldwin: Later Novels inspires a Spotify playlist

Darryl Pinckney: James Baldwin “stood his ground and paid a price”

James Baldwin, resurgent on screen and on the page in 2015

Maggie Nelson: American classics that influenced the writing of The Argonauts

Photos: No stranger in this Village, James Baldwin recognized with official plaque

At Edith Wharton’s House, James Baldwin Receives His Due