Notes of a Native Son

Notes of a Native Son#26 on The Guardian's list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With films like I Am Not Your Negro and the forthcoming If Beale Street Could Talk bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes

living in a ghostly white Pennsylvania town

chilling out playing old-school video games with his best friend

a rising associate at a top Manhattan law firm who strives to live the bougie lifestyle her parents worked hard to give her

the concept of Blackness has been remarkably intertwined with another color: blue

he finds himself drawn inexorably back into a world of blood and bullets

and there are no safety nets

They slip phrases into their stew and wrap meaning around their pork before frying it

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including poems from her first volume

an assassin on a secret mission to protect a powerful noblewoman from her enemies

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an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy