James Baldwin and Britain

Review of Nothing Personal

Source: The Guardian

Guardian, Nov 27, 1964. p.13

‘Versions of America’, Andrew Sinclair

Reviews Nothing Personal by JB and Richard Avedon

‘Mr Baldwin is one of the finest writers of modern American prose but his militancy and his Manichean view of the world in black and white are less subtle than Mr Avedon’s use of black and white. The text excoriates, the photographs illuminate’.