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INSANE: 3 | Vintage Vibes

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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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 Conversation

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

The Guardian - UK

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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

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - 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

The Independent UK

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

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

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‘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

The Guardian - UK

Five of the best books about queer relationships

From James Baldwin to Sarah Waters, writers have been telling rich, nuanced LGBTQ+ tales for decades – here are some good titles to try

The Guardian - UK

Feud: Capote vs the Swans review – the starriest TV show in living memory forgets to be fun

It’s got Naomi Watts, Chloë Sevigny and Demi Moore, plus Tom Hollander as a deliciously evil Truman Capote. It’s got style to die for and supreme scandal. So how is the new series from king of camp Ryan Murphy such a dud?

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Evening Standard

Best biographies of all time to add to your 2024 reading list

Intricate, academic explorations of lives and careers past

The Guardian - UK

Five of the best books about siblings

Our brothers and sisters can be our best friends, our enemies, and everything in between. These stories explore the unique bonds we have with them

The Guardian - AU

Billy Dee Williams says actors ‘should’ be allowed to wear blackface

Star Wars actor says he believes actors should be free to ‘do anything you want to do’, in a discussion about Laurence Olivier’s performance in Othello

The Walrus

What’s Lost in the Quest for Black Authenticity

The media’s appetite for “gritty” Black stories turns misery into entertainment

The Guardian - UK

‘Those Friends people make $100m a year! I’m getting six-cent cheques! It’s not OK!’: Billy Porter on race, recognition and the Middle East

The Pose star plays a divorcing dad in Our Son, but he has other things on his mind – such as getting paid, why his James Baldwin biopic is like Barbie and trying to understand the Israel-Gaza conflict

The Guardian - UK

‘At 80, I still have a lot of anger’: American poet Nikki Giovanni

The activist and poet Nikki Giovanni talks about fighting racial segregation, dealing with mobsters – and why her sense of outrage is undiminished