A collection of essays relating to the life and writings of James Baldwin.

On James Baldwin / --Biography of James Baldwin / -- The Paris review perspective / -- James Baldwin in his time / -- Exiled in Paris: the beginnings / -- "This web of lust and fury": Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Baldwin's nineteenth-century white mother / -- Faith in verse and fiction: James Baldwin's, Phillis Wheatley's, Octavia E. Butler's, and Tananarive Due's creation of a peaceful space / -- James Baldwin's critical reception / -- Looking for Jimmy Baldwin: sex, privacy, and black nationalist fervor / -- The tale of two cities in James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain / -- The treacherous body: isolation, confession, and community in James Baldwin / -- Subversive anti-Stalinism: race and sexuality in the early essays of James Baldwin / -- "Sonny's blues": James Baldwin's image of black community / -- The queering of memory: nostalgia and desire in Baldwin's "Going to meet the man" / -- On James Baldwin's Another country / -- James Baldwin and the "man" / -- The committed writer: James Baldwin as dramatist / -- If the street could talk: James Baldwin's search for love and understanding / -- Bearing the burden of the blues: If Beale Street could talk / -- The fire last time / -- The magic of James Baldwin / -- James Baldwin: the risks of love / Darryl Pinckney. On James Baldwin -- Biography of James Baldwin -- The Paris review perspective -- James Baldwin in his time -- Exiled in Paris: the beginnings -- "This web of lust and fury": Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Baldwin's nineteenth-century white mother -- Faith in verse and fiction: James Baldwin's, Phillis Wheatley's, Octavia E. Butler's, and Tananarive Due's creation of a peaceful space -- James Baldwin's critical reception -- Looking for Jimmy Baldwin: sex, privacy, and black nationalist fervor -- The tale of two cities in James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain -- The treacherous body: isolation, confession, and community in James Baldwin -- Subversive anti-Stalinism: race and sexuality in the early essays of James Baldwin -- Sonny's blues": James Baldwin's image of black community -- The queering of memory: nostalgia and desire in Baldwin's "Going to meet the man" -- On James Baldwin's Another country -- James Baldwin and the "man" -- The committed writer: James Baldwin as dramatist -- If the street could talk: James Baldwin's search for love and understanding -- Bearing the burden of the blues: If Beale Street could talk -- The fire last time -- The magic of James Baldwin -- James Baldwin: the risks of love.