James Baldwin

Billy Porter to play James Baldwin in new biopic

Porter to star in and co-write film based on 1994 biography of influential writer and civil rights activist

Adrian Horton

12, Apr, 2023 @6:09 PM

Baldwin v Buckley: how the ‘debate play’ made a riveting resurgence

Verbal clashes from history are being thrillingly restaged for modern audiences. Do these grand battles prove we’ve lost the art of disagreement? And could watching them anew change the politics of tomorrow?

Arifa Akbar

17, Mar, 2023 @4:00 PM

Top 10 books about losing faith | Matt Rowland Hill

Authors from Jeanette Winterson to William Shakespeare tell stories of people doubting not just God but everything that gives their life meaning

Matt Rowland Hill

09, Nov, 2022 @12:00 PM

Nikesh Shukla: ‘Reading Spider-Man made me feel less alone’

The author and screenwriter on his love of comic books, James Baldwin’s moral fury, and how The Buddha of Suburbia is one of the funniest books ever written

Nikesh Shukla

18, Feb, 2022 @10:00 AM

Books and films censored under Franco still circulating in Spain

Dictator who died in 1975 stamped out mention of Spanish civil war, sexuality and anti-Catholic views

Ashifa Kassam in Madrid

29, Dec, 2021 @7:31 PM

Monique Roffey: ‘William Golding’s The Inheritors gave me ideas for how I could write a mermaid’

The Costa winner on the James Baldwin novel she most cherishes, devouring Willard Price adventures as a child, and the sex scene she wishes she had written

Monique Roffey

09, Jul, 2021 @9:00 AM

Begin Again by Eddie S Glaude Jr review – the US through James Baldwin's eyes

The ‘white problem’ ... Baldwin’s writings spark a timely and absorbing engagement with American history

Sara Collins

18, Feb, 2021 @12:00 PM

Nonfiction to look out for in 2021

Biographies of Philip Roth and DH Lawrence, and the curious death of Robert Maxwell

Rachel Cooke

27, Dec, 2020 @10:00 AM

The sexiest moments in literature that aren't sex scenes

With the Bad sex in fiction award cancelled this year, we celebrate authors from Jeanette Winterson to Jane Austen who can charge the dryest scenes with sensuality

Sam Jordison

11, Dec, 2020 @12:04 PM

'Free speech has never been freer': Pankaj Mishra and Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation

Are we living through a moment of lasting change? Two authors discuss Black Lives Matter, the Harper’s letter and where we go from here

Pankaj Mishra and Viet Thanh Nguyen

24, Jul, 2020 @11:00 AM

The week in TV: My Brilliant Friend; The Salisbury Poisonings and more

The compelling Elena Ferrante adaptation finally returns

Euan Ferguson

21, Jun, 2020 @8:30 AM

TV tonight: the modern resonances of James Baldwin's America

Raoul Peck’s searing documentary explores systemic racism via the life of a great African-American writer. Plus: Framing John Delorean. Here’s what to watch this evening

Phil Harrison, Ali Catterall, Hannah Verdier and Paul Howlett

20, Jun, 2020 @5:00 AM