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Podcast: Past Present Future
Episode: History of Ideas 7: James Baldwin
Description: Episode 7 in our series on the great essays is about James Baldwin’s ‘Notes of a Native Son’ (1955), an essay that combines autobiography with a searing indictment of America’s racial politics. At its heart it tells the story of Baldwin’s relationship with his father, but it is also about fear, cruelty, violence and the terrible compromises of a country at war. What happens when North and South collide?More on Baldwin from the LRB:Michael Wood on Baldwin and power ‘James Baldwin’s thinking recalls Virginia Woolf’s view of the way that women...