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The Moving Letter James Baldwin Received from His Childhood Teacher at the Peak of His Fame and His Heartbreak

In early 1934, a twenty-four-year-old graduate student at Columbia Teachers College took an internship teaching drama and producing student plays at PS 24 in Harlem. Among her youn...

James Baldwin’s Advice on Writing

"Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance."

James Baldwin on How Love (Finally) Finds You

Our language betrays our self-betrayals: We speak of finding love, as if it were an undiscovered eighth continent or a habitable world in another solar system, as if it got lost li...

This 700-page biography, 40 years in the making, is a miracle

Decades after an eighth-grader put on a suit to give a presentation on James Baldwin, Nicholas Boggs has delivered Baldwin: A Love Story.

Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground, Anonymous Content Making Film of ‘Baldwin: A Love Story’

The James Baldwin autobiography will be adapted by its writer Nicholas Boggs and his partner, Marlon James, the bestselling author of "The Disappearers."

Advisry’s America, Still Looks at the Country Through the Past and Asks What Comes Next

Keith Herron's SS27 collection channels James Baldwin to blend Black cultural memory with modern streetwear and high fashion.

A City All His Own

In his view camera pictures of New York in the late 1970s, Baldwin Lee made the photographic tradition of the city as empty stage set his own.

How Marlon James Confronted ‘the Story I Was Not Allowed to Live’

With “The Disappearers,” the Booker Prize-winning author has written his most personal novel yet.

Als ik had geloofd dat het universum me tekens gaf, gaf het universum me tekens, dus las ik ‘Giovanni’s Room’ van James...

What happens when Black gay men refuse to carry other people’s shame

What happens when Black gay men refuse to carry other people's shame...

Marlon James explores how homophobia shaped life in Jamaica in 'The Disappearers'

Marlon James' new novel, "The Disappearers," was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It tells the story of a group of gay men trying to make their way, and stay alive, in the homopho...

I Went to Paris for Pride. I Came Home Thinking Bigger About Black Queer Life

A powerful celebration of Black queer life and global community activism.

The Disappearers: Marlon James's new novel gives voice to the gay men Jamaica erased

Share articlePrint articleMarlon James's 2026 novel, The Disappearers, has already been hailed as the novel of the century by The New York Times, and it is certainly magnificent an...

“The Disappearers,” Reviewed

Marlon James’s new novel follows a group of gay men who seek love, connection, and restitution after a bloody homophobic attack.

The Disappearers: Marlon James's new novel gives voice to the gay men Jamaica erased

Share articlePrint articleMarlon James's 2026 novel, The Disappearers, has already been hailed as the novel of the century by The New York Times, and it is certainly magnificent an...

MARLON JAMES returns in time for award season with queer Jamaican epic THE DISAPPEARERS

The latest novel from Marlon James is a sweeping, enthralling exploration of an underrepresented aspect of lived queer Caribbean history. The post MARLON JAMES returns in time for...

Marlon James Describes His Latest Book As a Gay Revenge Thriller

“I don’t know where I stand as a writer, but I am the greatest procrastinator of my generation.”

Montgomery Clift, Josephine Baker &… a Revolutionary War hero?! Gays name the queer historical icons they’d most lik...

Which gay historical figure would you most like to meet?

The fire(s) this time

Psalm 24:1 says: “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” In the conclusion to his 1962 masterful book The Fire Next Time, writer...

When Grief Becomes Love: 1-800 Happy Birthday Keeps Eric Garner’s Memory Alive 

Honoring Black and Brown people, like Eric Garner, with hope and memory.

My Love Letter To Sonia Sanchez, Who Gives Us Permission To Be Unabashed In Our Love For Ourselves 

A love letter to Sonia Sanchez, who has taught generations of Black creatives to bend language, love unabashedly, and embrace the fullness of our humanity.

In ‘An American Fiction,’ Ronald Jackson Casts an Imagined Screenplay

Ronald Jackson creates a sort of casting list for an imagined screenplay that titles the exhibition: 'An American Fiction.' Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a...

How to Be a Poet: Elizabeth Alexander on the Yin-Yang of Connection and Contradiction

“The poets (by which I mean all artists) are finally the only people who know the truth about us,” James Baldwin wrote. “Soldiers don’t. Statesmen don’t. Priests don’t. Union leade...

The little-known friendship between Nina Simone and Langston Hughes

A new book charts how a 1949 meeting between the renowned poet and the legendary musician, then a 16-year-old girl, sparked enduring ties and fruitful collaborationIn 1949, the poe...