"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In late 1962, James Baldwin wrote an open letter to his fifteen-year-old nephew, James, that was ...

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 ...

At the New York Public Library, two exhibitions add little to a very public writer’s mystique. But our critic dived deeper. By Walker Mimms Among the 20 artifacts at the 42nd Street Public Library ...

Kyle Bass’ short intense play “Citizen James, or the Young Man Without a Country” brings James Baldwin to vivid life, not by chronicling his long list of achievements in the 1950s, ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s ...