The Devil Finds Work: Essays
"If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one."--Michael Ondaatje"The best essayist in this country--a man whose power has always been in his reasoned, biting sarcasm; his insistence on removing layer by layer the hardened skin with which Americans shield themselves from their country."--The New York Times Book Review"It will be hard for the reader to see these films in quite the same way again."--The Christian Science Monitor"He has taken the old subject of race and made it even more personal probing perhaps more deeply than ever before into American racial practices."--The Nation"A provocative discussion."--Saturday Review