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The Times Literary Supplement

1980s

Advert for New English Library, listing Black Voices, and anthology of black writers including Baldwin (30 May 1980)

Baldwin quoted in a review of three books: Houston Baker Jr.’s The Journey Back, and Robert Stepto’s From Behind the Veil and Chant of Saints: A Gathering of Afro-American Literature, Art and Scholarship (30 May 1980)

A Baldwin article mentioned in an overview of the New Edinburgh Review (6 Jun 1980)

Baldwin referenced in a review of A. Robert Lee’s Black Fiction: New Studies in the Afro-American Novel Since 1945 (24 Oct 1980)

Baldwin mentioned in a review of several books by Flannery O’Connor (21 Nov 1980)

Manchester University Press advert for Literature and the American Urban Experience, which includes a contribution from Baldwin (12 Jun 1981)

Baldwin referenced in a review of Lisa Alther’s Original Sins (26 Jun 1981)

Manchester University Press advert for Literature and the American Urban Experience, which includes a contribution from Baldwin (2) (17 Jul 1981)

Baldwin referenced in a review of C.W.E. Bigsby’s The Second Black Renaissance (25 Sep 1981)

Baldwin referenced in a review of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary (16 Oct 1981)

Short overview of Literature and the American Urban Experience, which includes a contribution from Baldwin (22 Jan 1982)

Baldwin referenced in a review of Andre Brink’s Mapmakers: Writing in a State of Siege (16 Sep 1983)

Baldwin referenced in a review of Michael Cooke’s Afro-American Literature in the Twentieth Century (14 Jun 1985)

Baldwin briefly referenced in a piece by Christopher Hitchens (12 Jul 1985)

Baldwin briefly mentioned in a letter by Randolph Vigne, editor of Wasafiri magazine (19 Jul 1985)

Baldwin’s participation in the Second Edinburgh Book Festival is mentioned (16 Aug 1985)

Advert for The Price of the Ticket (15 Nov 1985)

In-depth review by Tony Tanner of The Price of the Ticket (24 Jan 1986)

Michael Joseph ad for Evidence of Things Not Seen (16 May 1986)

Baldwin referenced in a review of the film, The Color Purple (11 Jul 1986)

Iain Bamforth review of Evidence of Things Not Seen (19 Sep 1986)

Baldwin referenced in a review of the film, Round Midnight (28 Nov 1986)

James Campbell reviews a production of The Amen Corner at the Tricycle Theatre (30 Jan 1987)

‘Remainders’, Eric Korn. Contains brief mention of Baldwin (14 Aug 1987)

Baldwin referenced in a review of Andrea Dworkin’s Intercourse (16 Oct 1987)

A James Baldwin interview on Henry James mentioned in an advert for the Henry James Review (20 Nov 1987)

Baldwin’s mentioned at length in Christopher Hitchens’ latest column (11 Dec 1987)

Baldwin referenced in relation to the impending Clause 28 (29 Jan 1988)

A notice by James Campbell requesting any “Letters, personal recollections, photographs, unpublished writings”, for a biography to be published by Faber & Faber (19 Feb 1988)

Baldwin is posthumously accused by Julius Lester of having made anti-semitic remarks during a seminar (29 Apr 1988)

Baldwin referenced in a review of Chinua Achebe’s Hopes and Impediments (23 Sep 1988)

Baldwin referenced in a review of David Brinkley’s Washington Goes to War and Samuel Hynes’ Flights of Passage (7 Apr 1989)

Baldwin mentioned in a review of Robert Coles’ Times of Surrender: Selected essays (7 Jul 1989)

A mention that James Campbell’s biography of Baldwin is due to come out next year (15 Sep 1989)

An advert for Rowohlt, a German publisher, listing Baldwin as one of its published authors (6 Oct 1989)

Baldwin referenced in a James Campbell review of August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (3 Nov 1989)