James Baldwin in London in 1964. A new biography focuses on the author's relationships.

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.

The scholar Nicholas Boggs has a new perspective on James Baldwin. The new biography Baldwin: A Love Story considers how the ...

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 possible. When Arnold Rampersad’s ...

One essential element of James Baldwin’s transformation into “an icon” with “an aura of infallibility” is overlooked in Louis Menand’s fascinating discussion of the man (A Critic at Large, August 18th ...

The book, organized in sections centered around the writer's four great loves, details how Baldwin spent decades wrestling with his own sexuality, racism in the U.S. and abroad and the cost of fame.