At the heart of the organization is a mission to preserve and advance artistic and cultural traditions that have long shaped ...

This week brings two books preoccupied in separate ways with management of memory and the pressure it exerts on the present.

Nicholas Boggs discussed his new James Baldwin biography “Baldwin: A Love Story,” with New York Times columnist John McWhorter.

The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

The American Library Association (ALA) announced the six books shortlisted for the esteemed Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction ...

Nobel laureate Han Kang’s “We Do Not Part,” Megha Majumdar’s “A Guardian and a Thief” and Yiyun Li’s “ Things in Nature ...

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 1987, American author James Baldwin died in Saint Paul de Vence, France, at age 63. As a child in Harlem, James Baldwin (1924-1987) hewed to his family’s strict Baptist beliefs and would have known ...

As a child in Harlem, James Baldwin (1924-1987) hewed to his family’s strict Baptist beliefs and would have known I Corinthians 13, the New Testament’s famous “love chapter,” verse by verse. Nicholas ...

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — Bowling Green State University will honor the legacy of author and activist James Baldwin's contributions to art, culture and literature with a guest speaker and reading event on ...