Important though it was, “To Kill a Mockingbird” was also a white liberal fantasy.
Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues,” about two brothers learning to bond, captures some of the bonding I am doing with my second brother over our father’s illness.
After years of quietude, Tiger Wood is once again as hungry as a–well, you know what. James Baldwin describes it.
The horror of witnessing Kevin Ware’s horrific basketball injury reminds me of a moment of comparable horror in Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues.”
White Liberals suffer a downward spiral in 1960′s Civil Rights Literature, from heroic Atticus Finch to “Radical Chic” Leonard Bernstein.
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Revealing his prejudices, Aristotle tries to limit those whose suffering can be labeled tragic.
What causes Obama-derangement? Ellison’s “Invisible Man” and Baldwin’s “Go Tell It on the Mountain” offer explanations.
Spiritual Sunday Yesterday we had a white Christmas in Sewanee, Tennessee, where I am visiting my parents. The world was brown when we went to bed and white when we awoke. The symbolism of Christmas snow lies in the promise of wiping everything clean and starting anew. Grace appears to enter our fallen world. That’s [...]
