A Love Story’ unpacks ‘The Fire Next Time’ author’s life and work through accounts of his four most significant relationships ...

His works have been slow to come to stage and screen. But a new production of the novel “Giovanni’s Room” shows how rewarding ...

With words that pulse with vulnerability, sensuality, retrospection, and joy, a gifted collective of Black queer poets are ...

A rhapsodic retrospective in New York traces his steps from Tennessee to Paris and realistic portraits to all-out abstraction ...

Some months ago, inspired largely by this magazine’s content (see “Baldwin the exorcist,” November 2022), I declared for myself a Year of Baldwin: for 12 months, all of my nonfiction reading material ...

Douglass delivered his speech amid profound national divisions. At stake was the stark contradiction between America’s stated ...

Hollywood is mourning the loss of Michael Madsen after the actor and Quentin Tarantino collaborator died of cardiac arrest.

James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room by Quintessence Theatre proves art at its best is what we confront ourselves with ...

For a long stretch of his life, Daddy had two women to nurture him—Mrs. Williams and my mother—but Our Ma had only one ...

Sometimes, though, you don’t want to be stuck in the kitchen, you want someone else to bring the grub. “Dining Out” by Erik ...