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DARK SECRETS: 3 - The Real Truth

On my radar: Raymond Antrobus’s cultural highlights

The poet on the power of abstract art, Shakespeare in British Sign Language and the ‘articulated rage’ of James Baldwin

The Guardian - UK

Fear, queer love and self-loathing: James Baldwin’s mid-century masterpiece, Giovanni’s Room

Our cultural touchstones series looks at influential books.

The Conversation

David Heycock obituary

Other lives: BBC TV producer who worked on Kenneth Clark’s Civilisation and Alistair Cooke’s America

The Guardian - UK

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TV tonight: Snoop Dogg, Tom Cruise and Billie Eilish close the Olympics

Paris promises a spectacular end to the games, including a Hollywood stunt. Plus: rooftop races and fisticuffs in Vienna Blood. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Daughters to Three Thousand Years of Longing: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

A documentary about a radical approach to rehabilitation is inspirational and heartbreaking in equal measure, while Idris Elba plays a genie as Mad Max director George Miller lets his imagination run riot

The Guardian - UK

Strange Relations by Ralf Webb review – brave new queer world

A richly rewarding account of how four literary giants created an erotic revolution in post-war American culture

The Guardian - UK

ME: we need more funding and more research

Letters: people with myalgic encephalomyelitis and their carers are calling for a reversal of decades of underfunding

The Guardian - UK

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The week in audio: The Lost Archive of James Baldwin; Extreme: Muscle Men; Paris Olympics – review

The American writer’s personal effects, languishing in a French lock-up, are only part of a touching story. Plus, an entertaining tale of 80s bodybuilding, and gymnastics on the radio

The Guardian - UK

Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin review – an inspiring homage

Part church service, part exploration of Black identity, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter’s tribute to Baldwin revisits his writing in the light of Black Lives Matter

The Guardian - UK

The gang that couldn’t shoot straight

Trump embarrasses himself at the NABJ conference while Vance can’t escape his cat lady obsession

Salon

Meshell Ndegeocello: No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin review – a fire reignited

Baldwin’s stinging words on race and America are matched with the kind of musical eloquence that the great writer himself so admired

The Guardian - UK

Strange Relations: Masculinity, Sexuality and Art in Mid-Century America by Ralf Webb review – sex and the literary lions

A concise study of Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, Carson McCullers and James Baldwin, and how their sexuality informed their work, veers between lecture-hall lit crit and novelistic immediacy

The Guardian - UK

No Name in the Street; Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin – review

In the centenary of his birth year, the author’s voice is as necessary, human and sharp as ever in a reprinted short story collection and memoir from the 1960s and 70s

The Guardian - UK

James Baldwin taught us that identities can help us to locate ourselves. But they trap us too

The writer, who would have turned 100 this week, spoke to, and from, America’s moral conscience

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The Conversation

There is Light Somewhere at the Hayward Gallery: an emotional exploration of history and belonging

There is Light Somewhere, the title of the latest show by conceptual artist Tavares Strachan at the Hayward Gallery in London, is borrowed from a James Baldwin quote. In his final book of essays, Nothing Personal (1964), the American novelist and social critic wrote:

The Guardian - UK

Tavares Strachan review – encyclopaedic art that sizzles with life

From a hut that plays music as if it’s history’s jukebox to a rocket fuelled with sugarcane, the Bahamian makes art freighted with history and peopled by the overlooked and flawed

Evening Standard

Tavares Strachan at the Hayward Gallery review – imaginative show delights, informs and calls us to action

This first major survey of the artist’s work takes us on a journey in search of knowledge

The Guardian - UK

Bad Habit by Alana S Portero review – hard times in Madrid

A vivid debut of trans life in Spain after Franco observes a world of violence and petty cruelties with compassion

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The Independent UK

Hay Festival 2024: our guide to this year’s highlights

Judi Dench talking Shakespeare, conversations with bestsellers Marian Keyes and David Nicholls, and a deep dive into the day’s news with Independent journalists and leading thinkers – this year’s Hay Festival programme is fit to burst with unmissable events. Jessie Thompson picks the highlights

Evening Standard

Hay Festival 2024: our guide to the top events at this year's 'Woodstock of the mind'

With a programme rammed-full of performances, panels and talks, we pick some of this year’s best events

The Guardian - UK

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin audiobook review – from the civil rights frontline

Law & Order’s Jesse L Martin narrates two powerful essays examining the Black experience in the US, the first in a series marking the author’s centenary year

Evening Standard

How the great US writer James Baldwin still influences Londoners today... from Little Simz to Ian Wright

Ahead of a season of films related to one of the 20th century’s most influential writers and thinkers, the programme’s curator looks at Baldwin’s relationship with the capital

Evening Standard

Things to do in London this bank holiday weekend (May 3 – 6)

From new restaurant openings to the latest art exhibitions, here’s everything to eat, see and do this long weekend

The Guardian - UK

‘He craved an Oscar’: James Baldwin’s long campaign to crack Hollywood

He pitched slave-ship dramas to Ingmar Bergman, cast Marlon Brando as a bisexual man and wrote a Malcolm X screenplay that horrified the FBI. Why was this cinephile spurned by Hollywood?

The Guardian - UK

Caleb Azumah Nelson: ‘James Baldwin ignited something in me that’s still burning today’

The British-Ghanaian author on having his mind blown by Malorie Blackman as a child, the allure of John Williams’s Stoner and why Zadie Smith made him want to write

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