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The Times Literary Supplement

1960s

Giovanni’s Room listed under ‘Recent selected paperbacks’ (15 Jan 1960)

Baldwin quoted and referenced at length about his coming to terms with his American identity in an in-depth review and analysis of Doris Lessing’s In Pursuit of the English (1 Jul 1960)

Baldwin listed in an ad for Partisan Review (9 Sep 1960)

Oxford University Press for Radical Innocence: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel, by Ihab Hassan. Baldwin listed among prominent authors dealt with in the book (12 Jan 1962)

Baldwin mentioned in an extensive piece on South Africa (10 Aug 1962)

Michael Joseph adverts for Another Country (21 Dec 1962)

In-depth review of Another Country by Burns Singer (8 Feb 1963)

Baldwin referenced in a review of Louis E. Lomax’s The Negro Revolt and Sarah Patton Boyle’s The Desegregated Heart (7 Jun 1963)

Go Tell It On the Mountain listed among selected paperbacks (7 Jun 1963)

Michael Joseph advert for The Fire Next Time (28 Jun 1963)

In-depth review of The Fire Next Time by Burns Singer (26 Jul 1963)

Michael Joseph Advert for The Fire Next Time, Another Country, Giovanni’s Room, and Go Tell It On the Mountain (16 Aug 1963)

A long think piece on Baldwin and race by Burns Singer (6 Sep 1963)

A letter to the editor regarding a recent review of Another Country (4 Oct 1963)

Giovanni’s Room listed in selected paperbacks (4 Oct 1963)

Baldwin mentioned briefly in a letter by author Paul West regarding a recent review of his book, The Modern Novel (28 Nov 1963)

A letter to the editor from John Calder in which Baldwin is listed among several prominent authors who “have rejected the sense of sin as a metaphysical concept not relevant to the modern world” (2 Jan 1964)

Michael Joseph advert for Notes of a Native Son and Nobody Knows My Name (30 Jan 1964)

Notes of a Native Son and Nobody Knows My Name mentioned in list of upcoming books (30 Jan 1964)

In-depth review of Notes of a Native Son and Nobody Knows My Name by W.J. Weatherby (12 Mar 1964)

Advert announcing that The Mermaid – a colophon of Michael Joseph – will be displaying at the World Book Fair, with Baldwin’s works on display alongside many other authors (4 Jun 1964)

Baldwin referenced in a review of August Mire’s Negro Thought in America and Frazier Franklin’s The Negro Church in America (30 Jul 1964)

Baldwin briefly mentioned in a review of Wilfrid Mellers’ Music in a New Found Land (20 Aug 1964)

An advert for Cappelen, a Norwegian publishing house. Lists Baldwin among its published authors (3 Sep 1964)

The Fire Next Time listen in selected paperbacks (10 Sep 1964)

Advert for Elek book store (22 Oct 1964)

Reference to Baldwin in a review of Black Voices: New Writing by American Negroes (12 Nov 1964)

Giovanni’s Room and Go Tell It On the Mountain listed in selected paperbacks (3 Dec 1964)

J. Hornsby review of Baldwin and Richard Avedon’s Nothing Personal (10 Dec 1964)

Baldwin briefly mentioned in a J. Hornsby review of Freedom Now! The Civil Rights Movement in America (ed. Alan Westin) (7 Jan 1965)

Michael Joseph ad for Blues for Mister Charlie (25 Mar 1965)

Mention of a Simon Gray article on Baldwin published in Delta (25 Mar 1965)

Blues for Mr Charlie listed among works being issued soon (1 Apr 1965)

Advert for an interview of Baldwin with Nat Hentoff appearing in Peace News (22 Apr 1965)

Advert for Encounter magazine, listing a piece by Baldwin, Colin MacInnes and James Mossman (24 Jun 1965)

Baldwin referenced twice in an in-depth Eric Mottram review of New Negro Poets: USA (edited by Langston Hughes) (8 Jul 1965)

Baldwin quoted in a review of Kenneth Cragg’s Counsels in Contemporary Islam (16 Sep 1965)

Going to Meet the Man listed in books to come (7 Oct 1965)

In-depth Simon Gray review of Going to Meet the Man (28 Oct 1965)

E.V.C. Plumptre review of Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. Mentions that the book analyses the rhetoric in Baldwin’s writing, among many other writers (28 Oct 1965)

A review of Voices 2, a collection of short stories by young authors. Baldwin mentioned as one of the only distinctive voices in the collection (18 Nov 1965)

Baldwin referenced three times, mainly in relation to the civil rights movement, in an editorial overview of the last five years of American history (25 Nov 1965)

Baldwin referenced twice in an article about the changing standing of literature in American society and its relationship to politics (25 Nov 1965)

Baldwin referenced twice in an editorial in relation to two books: John Cromwell’s The Negro in American History and The Negro Church in America (25 Nov 1965)

Michael Joseph advert for Going to See the Man (25 Nov 1965)

Baldwin mentioned in an editorial in relation to Another Country (25 Nov 1965)

Baldwin mentioned in an advert for The Northwestern Tri-Quarterly, “a new international review of arts, letters and opinion” (25 Nov 1965)

Advert for Collet’s book shop. Lists Harlem U.S.A., which includes a contribution by Baldwin (25 Nov 1965)

Advert for Claude Brown’s Manchild in the Promised Land, with an endorsement from Baldwin (26 May 1966)

Review of James Hart’s The Oxford Companion to American Literature. Mentions that Baldwin is covered at length in the book (23 Jun 1966)

Baldwin referenced in a review of Claude Brown’s Manchild in the Promised Land (11 Aug 1966)

A Faber & Faber advert for The Second American Revolution: The struggle for civil rights, by Anthony Lewis. Mentions that Baldwin is a contributor to the book (10 Nov 1966)

Baldwin’s contribution mentioned in a review of Arthur Lewis’s The Second American Revolution: The struggle for civil rights (24 Nov 1966)

The Fire Next Time listed in selected paperbacks (2 Mar 1967)

Baldwin mentioned as one of Felix Grande’s cultural heroes in a review of his Blanco Spirituals (7 Dec 1967)

Advert for Howard M. Harper’s Desperate Faith: A study of Bellow, Mailer, Baldwin and Updike (21 Dec 1967)

Baldwin quoted twice in an editorial overview of some new books dealing with “the American Negro” question (18 Jan 1968)

Michael Joseph advert for Fern Marja Eckman’s The Furious Passage of James Baldwin (25 Jan 1968)

Baldwin referenced in a review of Martin Luther King’s Chaos or Community and Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton’s Black Power (18 Apr 1968)

Baldwin referenced in a review of Michael Banton’s Race Relations (25 Apr 1968)

Michael Joseph advert for Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone (30 May 1968)

Michael Joseph advert for Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone (2) (6 Jun 1968)

In-depth review of Fern Marja Eckman’s The Furious Passage of James Baldwin (6 Jun 1968)

In-depth review by Harold Beaver of Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone (4 Jul 1968)

Baldwin referenced in an article about the rise of American Literature degree courses in British universities (25 Jul 1968)

Baldwin referenced in a review of Norman Podhoretz’s The Commentary Reader (29 Aug 1968)

Baldwin referenced in a review of Ernest Dunbar’s The Black Expatriates: A Study of American Negroes in Exile (3 Oct 1968)

Baldwin referenced in a review of LeRoi Jones’s Home (7 Nov 1968)

Baldwin is compared unfavourably W.E.B. DuBois (5 Dec 1968)

Baldwin referenced in a review of Max Hastings’ America 1968: The Fire This Time (30 Jan 1969)

Review of Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul On Ice. Mentions the book’s attack on Baldwin (27 Feb 1969)

Baldwin mentioned in a letter to the editor regarding a recent review of Eldridge Cleaver’s Soul On Ice (13 Mar 1969)

Michael Joseph advert for The Amen Corner (24 Apr 1969)

Advert for David Anderson’s The Tragic Protest. Baldwin mentioned as one of the authors studied in the book (19 Jun 1969)

Advert for LeRoi Jones’s Black Music and Tales. Described as “The most discussed –and admired– Negro writer since James Baldwin” (28 Aug 1969)

Baldwin referenced in a review of LeRoi Jones’s Tales (2) (11 Sep 1969)

Baldwin referenced in a piece about the future of international publishing by Fritz Raddatz, editor of Rowohlt, Hamburg (25 Sep 1969)

Advert for LeRoi Jones’s Black Music and Tales. Described as “The most discussed –and admired– Negro writer since James Baldwin” (2) (9 Oct 1969)