- Published: 1 August 2024
- ISBN: 9781802066845
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 208
No Name in the Street
- Published: 1 August 2024
- ISBN: 9781802066845
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 208
He was one of our best essayists in the best American gadfly tradition
Ralph Ellison
What makes his essays so compelling is that he insists on being personal, on forcing the public and the political to submit to his voice and the test of his experience and his observation
Colm Tóibín
If Van Gogh was our 19th century artist-saint then James Baldwin is our 20th century one
Michael Ondaatje
Baldwin refused to hold anyone’s hand. He was both direct and beautiful all at once. He did not seem to write to convince you. He wrote beyond you
Ta-Nehisi Coates