James Baldwin and Britain

Marcus Cunliffe review of A Dialogue by James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni

Source: The Guardian

Guardian, May 1, 1975. p.11

‘Angela Doesn’t Feel Free’, Marcus Cunliffe

Review of Angela Davis: An Autobiography and A Dialogue by JB and Nikki Giovanni.

He spends most of the article attacking Davis on the grounds that she was well educated and from a middle-class background and the last couple of paragraphs attacking Baldwin: ‘Even so her book is vastly preferable to the thin, self-regarding miscellany dished up as a dialogue between JB and NG’.