Baker, Roger. ‘Shades of Oppression.’ Gay News [London], May 22-June 4, 1975, p. 17.

Baker reviews two books A Dialogue by James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni and also James Baldwin, A Critical Study. The review is mostly positive of the two works, for instance Baker writes that A Dialogue has ‘the gripping quality of spontaneous conversation’ and that Macebuh’s work is ‘painstaking and scholarly’ although criticises the latter’s minimal exploration of sexuality in Baldwin’s work: ‘Baker writes that: ‘For many people Giovanni’s Room comes near the top of any gay fiction reading list. Macebuh can manage two references to homosexuality in the index’. Baker also writes that ‘in the Dialogue homosexuality receives one passing mention from Baldwin’.