James Baldwin and Britain

J.R. Pole reviews Notes of a Native Son & Nobody Knows My Name

Source: The Daily Telegraph

Feb 28 1964: 18

‘Free from illusions’, J.R. Pole

J.R. Pole reviews Notes of a Native Son & Nobody Knows My Name: ‘…the US has been peculiarly productive of social self-criticism – criticism which has consequently not only been stringent but highly articulate. JB however does not merely appear at a long list of critics; his appearance transforms the whole scene’.