On James Baldwin / Morris Dickstein --
Biography of James Baldwin / Barry Mann --
The Paris review perspective / Richard Beck for The Paris review --
James Baldwin in his time / Douglas Field --
Exiled in Paris: the beginnings / James Campbell --
"This web of lust and fury": Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Baldwin's nineteenth-century white mother / Horace A. Porter --
Faith in verse and fiction: James Baldwin's, Phillis Wheatley's, Octavia E. Butler's, and Tananarive Due's creation of a peaceful space / Mildred R. Mickle --
James Baldwin's critical reception / D. Quentin Miller --
Looking for Jimmy Baldwin: sex, privacy, and black nationalist fervor / Douglas Field --
The tale of two cities in James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain / Charles Scruggs --
The treacherous body: isolation, confession, and community in James Baldwin / Peter Kerry Powers --
Subversive anti-Stalinism: race and sexuality in the early essays of James Baldwin / Geraldine Murphy --
"Sonny's blues": James Baldwin's image of black community / John M. Reilly --
The queering of memory: nostalgia and desire in Baldwin's "Going to meet the man" / Tiffany Gilbert --
On James Baldwin's Another country / Lionel Trilling --
James Baldwin and the "man" / F.W. Dupee --
The committed writer: James Baldwin as dramatist / C.W.E. Bigsby --
If the street could talk: James Baldwin's search for love and understanding / Yoshinobu Hakutani --
Bearing the burden of the blues: If Beale Street could talk / Trudier Harris --
The fire last time / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. --
The magic of James Baldwin / Darryl Pinckney --
James Baldwin: the risks of love / Darryl Pinckney.