James Baldwin and Britain

Lorna Sage review of If Beal Street Could Talk

Source: The Observer

Observer, June 16, 1974. p.33:

‘Conjugal Conspiracies’, Lorna Sage

Review of If Beal Street Could Talk:

‘You can hardly accuse Baldwin of evading the big issues. Here, everything serves them…If Beal Street Could Talk clothes its contentious opinions in the timeless idioms of familial piety, and keeps doubt from the door with incantations’.