https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/mpl/rss/search?query=Baldwin%2C%20James&searchType=author&origin=core-catalog-explore&page=2&view=groupedRSS for NodeTue, 10 Mar 2026 16:27:38 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C999845https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C999845Mon, 31 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/999845075BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780030554421/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C1261101https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C1261101Tue, 31 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1261101075BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780679601517/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7330426https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7330426Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/7330426075BKThe Last Interview and Other Conversationsenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781612194004/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C425377https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C425377Thu, 31 Jan 1963 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/425377075BKenghttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C892473https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C892473Thu, 31 Jan 1963 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/892473075BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780440325420/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin
“I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only.” When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe traveled to the south of France to interview James Baldwin, Baldwin’s brother David told him to ask Baldwin about everything—Baldwin was critically ill and David knew that this might be the writer’s last chance to speak at length about his life and work.
The result is one of the most eloquent and revelatory interviews of Baldwin’s career, a conversation that ranges widely over such topics as his childhood in Harlem, his close friendship with Miles Davis, his relationship with writers like Toni Morrison and Richard Wright, his years in France, and his ever-incisive thoughts on the history of race relations and the African-American experience.
Also collected here are significant interviews from other moments in Baldwin’s life, including an in-depth interview conducted by Studs Terkel shortly after the publication of Nobody Knows My Name. These interviews showcase, above all, Baldwin’s fearlessness and integrity as a writer, thinker, and individual, as well as the profound struggles he faced along the way.]]>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C1765369https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C1765369Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1765369980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781612194011/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The book that galvanized the nation, gave voice to the emerging civil rights movementin the 1960s—and still lights the way to understanding race in America today. • "The finest essay I’ve ever read.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates

At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document from the iconic author of If Beale Street Could Talk and Go Tell It on the Mountain. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. 
Described by The New York Times Book Review as "sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle … all presented in searing, brilliant prose," The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of literature.]]>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C1377488https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C1377488Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1377488980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780804149723/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8398946https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8398946Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/8398946075BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780807006115/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C965524https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C965524Tue, 31 Jan 1984 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/965524075BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780807064313/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9052675https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C9052675Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9052675075BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780807018972/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C3656458https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C3656458Mon, 31 Jan 1955 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3656458075BKenghttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C3602176https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C3602176Thu, 31 Jan 1985 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3602176075BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780745300597/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C291501https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C291501Invalid Datehttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/291501075BKengI Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native Son serves as a valuable introduction.
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era. Writing as an artist, activist, and social critic, Baldwin probes the complex condition of being black in America. With a keen eye, he examines everything from the significance of the protest novel to the motives and circumstances of the many black expatriates of the time, from his home in “The Harlem Ghetto” to a sobering “Journey to Atlanta.”
Notes of a Native Son inaugurated Baldwin as one of the leading interpreters of the dramatic social changes erupting in the United States in the twentieth century, and many of his observations have proven almost prophetic. His criticism on topics such as the paternalism of white progressives or on his own friend Richard Wright’s work is pointed and unabashed. He was also one of the few writing on race at the time who addressed the issue with a powerful mixture of outrage at the gross physical and political violence against black citizens and measured understanding of their oppressors, which helped awaken a white audience to the injustices under their noses. Naturally, this combination of brazen criticism and unconventional empathy for white readers won Baldwin as much condemnation as praise.
Notes is the book that established Baldwin’s voice as a social critic, and it remains one of his most admired works. The essays collected here create a cohesive sketch of black America and reveal an intimate portrait of Baldwin’s own search for identity as an artist, as a black man, and as an American.]]>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C912798https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C912798Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/912798980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780807006245/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C530067https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C530067Sat, 31 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/530067075BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781883011529/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7359231https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7359231Sat, 31 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/7359231075BKA Novelenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780375701894/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7169641https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7169641Tue, 31 Jan 1995 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/7169641075BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780679761792/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7666086https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C7666086Sun, 31 Jan 1993 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/7666086075BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780679744719/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C571185https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C571185Wed, 31 Jan 1968 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/571185075BKA Novelenghttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C2508445https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C2508445Sun, 31 Jan 1988 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2508445075BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780440302001/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C391104https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C391104Sun, 31 Jan 1965 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/391104075RARE_BKenghttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C686254https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C686254Wed, 31 Jan 1962 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/686254075BKengFrom one of the most important American novelists of the twentieth century—a novel of sexual, racial, political, artistic passions, set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France.
“Brilliant and fiercely told.”—The New York Times

One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years
Stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, this book depicts men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.]]>https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C1377430https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C1377430Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1377430980EBOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780804149716/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8428999https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8428999Sat, 31 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/8428999075BKGo Tell It on the Mountain ; Giovanni's Room ; Another Country ; Going to Meet the Manenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781883011512/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8247317https://mpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S75C8247317Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://mpl.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/8247317075BKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780807006429/MC.GIF&client=notsobplp&type=xw12&oclc=