James Baldwin
96 pages
Paperback
To celebrate the exhibition The Bough Breaks at Camden Art Centre, we offer Matthew Krishanu's reading list exclusively selected by the artist.
James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice.