The best books of 2020 (so far) are fit for the reader of escapist romance, of literary excavations, of hilarious essay collections, of dysfunctional-family stories
Glaude’s beautifully wrought reexamination of James Baldwin begins in, of all places, Germany, two years after the election ofIn Heidelberg as the recipient of an academic honor, Glaude found stillness and headspace apart from the dangerous cacophony back home.
“Even in the darkest moments in his life and in that of the country, Jimmy always believed we could be better than what we are,” writes Glaude. In deep engagement with Baldwin’s work—which Glaude has long studied and taught in his position as Princeton’s chair of the Department of African American Studies —matched with present-day political analysis, he finds the “chance to excavate the past and to examine the ruins” an invigorating one.
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