The Fire Next Time
by James Baldwin
James Baldwin was born in 1924 in Harlem, New York. As a youth he dodged the perils of his rough neighborhood by preaching in a local church. When he heard his f...
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Critical Essay by Garry Wills
James Baldwin is a disarming man, against whom it is necessary to arm ourselves. Which, oddly enough, may be what he is trying to tell us.
[In The Fire Next Time he] ...
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Critical Essay by Stephen Spender
Baldwin's power is his ability to express situations—the situation of being a Negro, and of being white, and of being human. Beyond this, he is perhaps...
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Critical Essay by Karl Miller
Mr Baldwin's enlistment in the cause of Civil Rights was bound to change his writings. It seems he has sacrificed them, or some of their resources…. His ea...
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In The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin addressed the problem of racism that existed in the early 1960s. He gives very powerful accounts of his life growing up in Harlem in the 1930s and 40s. Throug...
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Teaching The Fire Next Time
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The Fire Next Time Lesson Plans contain 119 pages of teaching material, including:
Let me welcome the new year by celebrating August Wilson's underestimated, fantastic, risky achievement of Gem of the Ocean (directed with such assurance by Kenny Leon at the Walter Kerr). Any seri...
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The Fire Next Time
Critical Essay by Garry Wills
Baldwin's View of Christianity
An Underrated Gem: Wilson Celebrates Memory
