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Exploring James Baldwin’s America, Eddie Glaude Jr. Finds Despair, Rage, and Faith

Our new Igloo Book Buzz selection is Eddie Glaude Jr.’s BEGIN AGAIN: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own, published by Crown. Mixing biography with history, memoir, and trenchant analysis of our current moment, this book is Glaude’s endeavor, following Baldwin, to bear witness to the difficult truth of race in America today. It is at once a searing exploration that lays bare the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we all must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America. Continue reading