Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own

“This title is written by a man who has been reading James Baldwin—both as a professor and as a African American who wants to understand the world he’s in—for most of his adult life. He has taken not the fiction of Baldwin, but the nonfiction, starting with The Fire Next Time (published in 1963) and going on through the seventies and right up until his death in 1987.” Read more...

The 2021 British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding

Patrick Wright, Historian