The Times Literary Supplement, 15 Aug. 1958, p. 464.

‘Challenge to the Intellect’, C. P. Snow

Baldwin’s work very briefly mentioned in a long article by CP Snow on the ‘contemporary English novel’. Baldwin’s work mentioned in relation to writing by American critic and writer, Norman Podhoretz, on ‘modern American novelists’; Snow includes a quote from Podhoretz where Baldwin is described by Podhoretz as being a “a writer who seems able to produce fiction only at the expense of suppressing half of what he sees and knows, whose discursive prose is richer, more imaginative and fundamentally more honest, than his novels and stories.”