![]() ![]() Glaude introduces nuances that I surely missed when I read multiple Baldwin essays and novels many years ago. In fact, I would suggest reading Glaude’s book first and then revisiting Baldwin’s collected essays, his novels, and his poetry. Trump presidency and muses about what we might learn from Baldwin regarding our own troubled times.Ī reader of Begin Again need not already be familiar with James Baldwin’s words. Finally, Begin Again confronts the first three years of the Donald J. Alongside these close textual readings is a memoir, where Glaude recollects his own experiences while tracing Baldwin’s growth as a writer. One is an analysis of James Baldwin’s writings, revisited decades after his death. Glaude Jr.’s Begin Again is actually three books wrapped together. Baldwin and Glaude, rereading Baldwin to arrive at Glaude’s writing and thinking today.Įddie S. Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own. ![]()
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