James Baldwin and Britain

Review of Karen Thorsen’s James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

Source: The Guardian

The Guardian, 19 Apr 1990: 25.

‘Searching for Smith’, Derek Malcolm

Derek Malcolm reviews The Price of a Ticket about JB: ‘The fact that he [JB] was as eloquent talking as he was writing makes this a fine document, and one which shows very clearly the pressures upon him as an artist and individualist who also had to be a spokesman for his race at a vital and difficult time’.