James Baldwin and "the man" / F.W. Dupee
A question of identity / Marcus Klein
Blues for Mr. Charlie / Philip Roth
The lesson of the master / Charles Newman
The Negro church / Edward Margolies
Out of control / Roger Rosenblatt
Images of Africa in the writings of James Baldwin
Coming home / Pearl K. Bell
The divided mind of James Baldwin / C.W.E. Bigsby
Giovanni's room / Stephen Adams
Baldwin looks back / James A. Snead.
From the Book - Updated edition.
The fire last time / Henry Louis Gates, Jr --
The evolution of James Baldwin as essayist / Nick Aaron Ford --
The ironic voice in Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain / Shirley S. Allen --
The south in Go tell it on the mountain : Baldwin's personal confrontation / Horace Porter --
The significance of "Notes of a native son" / Horace Porter --
"Making love in the midst of mirrors" : Giovanni's room and Another country / Carolyn Wedin Sylvander --
The exorcising medium : Another country / Trudier Harris --
A protest of his own / Irving Howe --
Some tickets are better : the mixed achievement of James Baldwin / Julius Lester --
Africa and The fire next time / David Leeming --
"Sonny's blues" : James Baldwin's image of Black community / John M. Reilly --
The jazz-blues motif in James Baldwin's "Sonny's blues" / Richard N. Albert --
Fire as the symbol of a leadening existence in "Going to meet the man" / Arthenia Bates Millican --
The fire next time this time / Mel Watkins --
Excerpt from "The celebrity's return" / Lynn Orilla Scott --
His cardboard lovers / Mario Puzo.
Biography of James Baldwin / Amy Sickels
James Baldwin : nothing less than courageous / Gabriel Welsch
Baldwin's reception and the challenge of his legacy / Lynn Orilla Scott
The divided mind of James Baldwin / C.W.E. Bigsby.