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Nicholas Boggs’s “Baldwin: A Love Story” is many things at once. It’s a comprehensive biography of James Baldwin. It’s a nimble excavation of Baldwin’s work, filled with astute literary analysis of ...

As a child in Harlem, James Baldwin (1924-1987) hewed to his family’s strict Baptist beliefs and would have known I Corinthians 13, the New Testament’s famous “love chapter,” verse by verse. Nicholas ...

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. Exhibition Review In the financial district of ...

Gay Black writer James Baldwin (1924-1987) seems to be everywhere: TikTok memes, social media hashtags, Raoul Peck’s 2016 award-winning documentary, “I Am Not Your Negro,” Princeton University’s ...

When I received my reviewer’s advanced copy of Nicholas Boggs’ epic biography of James Baldwin, “Baldwin: A Love Story,” several months in advance of the Aug. 19 publication date, I was determined to ...

The radical lives of James Baldwin. While Baldwin was persecuted in part because of whom he loved, it was love that impelled him to bring about a more utopian future in which such persecution was not ...

In 1987, American author James Baldwin died in Saint Paul de Vence, France, at age 63. As a child in Harlem, James Baldwin (1924-1987) hewed to his family’s strict Baptist beliefs and would have known ...

A monumental new biography of James Baldwin was published this summer, in coordination with the centennial of his birth. Nicholas Boggs’s Baldwin: A Love Story traces Baldwin’s prolific career and ...

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In the first major biography of James Baldwin in over three decades, Nicholas Boggs presents an intimate portrait shaped by the people who inspired him. Boggs traces four of Baldwin's transformative ...

"Not everything that is faced can be changed," James Baldwin famously explained in 1962, "but nothing can be changed until it is faced." At the time the late author, who is profiled in a new biography ...