James Baldwin 3-Book Box Set: Giovanni's Room, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Go Tell It on the MountainCelebrating the Centenary of James Baldwin's birth, a box set of Baldwin's principal novels, featuring Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, and If Beale Street Could Talk. These deluxe editions feature new introductions by Roxane Gay, Kevin Young, and Brit Bennett. Originally published in 1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood. With lyrical precision and a rage that is at once

No metropolis has been more loved or more hated

erotic poetry

When she is caught crying in public

they have to scrunch their noses 15

Also included in this edition is Ibrahim’s celebrated essay about the writing and reception of That Smell

without judgment

He roams the "steampunk" city of "old traditions and new machinery

The questions of animacy and reality that hover over childhood are given new thrust in the absurdist writer Jesse Ball’s playdate horror

who redefined what it meant to be Asian-American for the late 20th Century

A summing up of Foucault's own methodological assumptions

Combining the skills of a poet and scholar

Through close readings