Excerpt from Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin 07 Jun '22 “I never had a childhood,” James Baldwin told a French interviewer in 1974. To a journalist ten years earlier, he proclaimed, “I did not have... Read More
Jimmy in Paris, 1948 16 Feb '21 To celebrate publication of the new edition of James Campbell’s essential biography of James Baldwin, Talking at the Gates, here is an extract... Read More