James Baldwin

Judy Juanita and her 'Virgin Soul'

2013-04-19 06:00:00

In the late 1960s, Judy Juanita was a college undergraduate in the Bay Area and editor of a Black Panther Party newspaper. Now her new novel, "Virgin Soul" (Viking, $26.95), recounts the story of Geniece, an undergraduate who joins the Panthers. But...

Prefer not to? Kevin Smokler says you should reread 'Bartleby'

2013-02-19 06:00:00

It's almost as if Kevin Smokler found himself in 30-something detention: well into adulthood, he was sentenced to go back and re-read the books he read in high school English class. He might have escaped if he hadn't been passing notes in class written...

Emily Raboteau's fresh exploration of identity and faith

2013-01-18 07:10:00

-------------------- Searching for Zion The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora Emily Raboteau Atlantic Monthly Press: 320 pp., $25 -------------------- In 1965, author and civil rights essayist James Baldwin appeared at the Cambridge Union...

Martin Luther King Jr.: 12 essential reads

2013-01-21 13:08:00

Today the nation honors the life of�Martin Luther King Jr., the reverend and activist who led the American civil rights movement. As King studied nonviolence as practiced by Gandhi and imagined by Henry David Thoreau, now his own life and work�are the...

Toni Morrison leads U.S. delegation at Festival America in France

2012-09-22 06:47:00

VINCENNES, France -- I am one of about five dozen invitees to the biennial Festival America book fair just outside Paris. Toni Morrison is the guest of honor at the event, which brings together authors from the Americas. Jennifer Egan is here too, along...

PASSINGS: Ron Palillo, Al Freeman Jr., James M. Naughton

2012-08-15 00:00:00

Ron Palillo Actor played Arnold Horshack on 'Kotter' Ron Palillo, 63, an actor whose signature role was Arnold Horshack in the 1970s TV sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter," died Tuesday of a heart attack in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., said his agent, Jackie...

88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress

2012-07-04 16:36:52

It's Your Anniversary: Underground hip-hop Project Blowed is 17

2011-12-15 21:36:14

Art review: 'Glenn Ligon: America' at LACMA

2011-10-24 21:32:57

Open Mike Eagle picks his five favorite current comedians

2011-11-18 16:35:36

PST, A to Z: 'Identity and Affirmation' at CSUN Art Galleries

2011-11-22 16:33:02

Mark Twain stamp is coming to post offices June 25

2011-06-23 16:35:17

South Bend Tribune/ROBERT FRANKLIN.Silver Hawks' Pedro Ruiz, right, drops the ball after attempting to tag out Loons' James Baldwin during the game at Coveleski Stadium on Wednesday, April 24, 2013, in South Bend.

2013-04-24 00:00:00

Alexie is a poet and writer whose books include "Reservation Blues" and "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian." For Romney: Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species," so he'd learn that humans have advanced because of compassion and not competition.

2012-08-16 00:00:00

Author James Baldwin in 1985.

2010-08-18 16:58:13