
James Baldwin
Praise for Giovanni's Room
Extraordinarily exact and complex emotional intimacy . . . At the core of the novel lies Baldwin’s recognition that with a denial of suffering and pain as a means of happiness, there can be no feeling, understanding ...
Guardian
Today, when a great many arguments and complaints from the queer quarters of the political sphere have to do with what has been done to queerness by the patriarchy and by whiteness, Baldwin asks, in Giovanni&rsqu ...
Hilton Als, New York Times Style Magazine
The whole novel is a kind of anatomy of shame, of its roots and the myths that perpetuate it, of the damage it can do.
Garth Greenwell, Guardian
Extraordinarily exact and complex emotional intimacy . . . At the core of the novel lies Baldwin’s recognition that with a denial of suffering and pain as a means of happiness, there can be no feeling, understanding ...
Guardian
Today, when a great many arguments and complaints from the queer quarters of the political sphere have to do with what has been done to queerness by the patriarchy and by whiteness, Baldwin asks, in Giovanni&rsqu ...
Hilton Als, New York Times Style Magazine
The whole novel is a kind of anatomy of shame, of its roots and the myths that perpetuate it, of the damage it can do.
Garth Greenwell, Guardian
Extraordinarily exact and complex emotional intimacy . . . At the core of the novel lies Baldwin’s recognition that with a denial of suffering and pain as a means of happiness, there can be no feeling, understanding ...
Guardian
Today, when a great many arguments and complaints from the queer quarters of the political sphere have to do with what has been done to queerness by the patriarchy and by whiteness, Baldwin asks, in Giovanni&rsqu ...
Hilton Als, New York Times Style Magazine
The whole novel is a kind of anatomy of shame, of its roots and the myths that perpetuate it, of the damage it can do.
Garth Greenwell, Guardian
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