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London Review of Books

1990s

Michael Wood reviews 2 Baldwin biographies: James Campbell’s Talking at the Gates and WJ Weatherby’s Artist on Fire (7 Feb 1991)

Baldwin referenced in Daniel Aaron's review of Richard Sennett's The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of the Cities (10 Oct 1991)

Baldwin referenced in Michael Wood's review of Spike Lee's Malcolm X film (25 Mar 1993)

Baldwin referenced in Adam Lively's review of Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic and Small Acts (10 Mar 1994)

Baldwin referenced and quoted in a James Campbell review of Caryl Phillips’ Cambridge (11 Jul 1991)

Baldwin referenced in A. Craig Copetas’s review of Hunter S. Thompson’s Songs of the Doomed (19 Dec 1991)

Baldwin referenced in an A. Craig Copetas review of Willie Morris’s New York Days (18 Nov 1993)

Baldwin referenced in a review of a volume of Edmund Wilson’s journals (7 Jul 1994)

Baldwin and Giovanni’s Room referenced in a review of Alan Hollinghurst’s The Folding Star (10 Nov 1994)

Baldwin’s thought and work referenced twice in Joyce Carol Oates’s review of Henry Louis Gates’s Colored People: A Memoir (12 Jan 1995)

Baldwin referenced extensively and repeatedly in a review of three books by James Campbell, Peter Lennon and John de St Jorre (9 Mar 1995)

Christopher Hitchens reviews Gore Vidal’s Palimpsest: A Memoir. References an anecdote regarding Jack and Bobby Kennedy mocking Baldwin homophobically. (19 Oct 1995)

Baldwin referenced in the context of the history of gay literature (22 Feb 1996)

Baldwin quoted in a review of Michael Rogin’s Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot (18 Jul 1996)

Baldwin’s rejection of the protest novel referenced in review of Martha Nussbaum’s Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life (17 Oct 1996)