In 1950, James Baldwin and his lover, the painter Lucien Happersberger, set out from Paris for the mountains of Switzerland, where Baldwin, then around 25, hoped to climb his way out of a creative ...

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.

Pink Dust, a collection about aging and death, offers an optimistic vision of life as a continual act of reading.

The story of the country's first all-Black magazine, born out of the Harlem Renaissance, brings to the life the works of Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and others.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there's a Monster Mash and you can meet the “Ghosts of Somerville,” visit the ThotBot, hear poet Phillis Wheatley, see the Cirque of the ...

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.

In many ways, the late, Black, gay writer James Baldwin had been writing his own story for years. However, with “Baldwin: A Love Story” (FSG, 2025) by Nicholas Boggs, readers now have the first major ...

When I received my reviewer’s advanced copy of Nicholas Boggs’ epic biography of James Baldwin, “Baldwin: A Love Story,” several months in advance of the Aug. 19 publication date, I was determined to ...

Nicholas Boggs describes himself as an “accidental biographer,” and his new book, “Baldwin: A Love Story,” as something he fell into. “I don’t know if I should say this,” said Boggs, 51, “but when I ...