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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 father proclaim that his Jewish friends were damned,...

The Fire Next Time is a book by James Baldwin. It contains two essays: "My Dungeon Shook - Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation", and "Down At The Cross - Letter from a Region of My Mind". The first of these is written as...

The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 08-16-1998 THE FIRE NEXT TIME -- OXYGEN TANKS IN HOMES POSE SPECIAL DANGERS Date: 08-16-1998, Sunday Section: REVIEW & OUTLOOK Edition: All Editions -- Sunday LAST Sunday afternoon, a savage fire ripped through an apartment in a...

Natural disasters, an anemic economy, and Ah-nold. California, here we come. The beach brats of The O. C. live more than just a short stroll from the shore-nearly every episode features wet-suited patriarch Peter Gallagher unloading his longboard from the rear hatch of...

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 serious play needs all the help it can get nowadays and, astonishingly, Gem had...

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] has written an indictment of Western civilization—more precisely, of that civilization's religion, of "the white God"—that is carefully and consciously "outrageous." He edges toward us—in every sentence—his credentials as the most sensitive and discriminating articulator of Negro su...

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 too impatient to be a good novelist, and although he is a powerful essayist [as shown in The Fire Next Time] his experiences are so colored with feelings that he seems unable to relate the thoughts which arise from his feelings to parallel situations that have given rise to other men's thoughts. (p. 256) Mr. Baldwin would admit, I think,...

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 earlier essays were rich and good. But the intermittently powerful rhetoric of last year's The Fire Next Time—a fire kindled, it's the kind of thing that happens with such documents, in the asbestos pages of the New Yorker—has become the brutal and unqualified rhetoric of the present essay [Nothing Personal]. No one...

Essay discusses James Baldwin's view on the Christian church as well as his work "The Fire Next Time."