From the Book - First edition.
The foreigner's home. The dead of September 11
A race in mind : the press in deed
The price of wealth, the cost of care
Sarah Lawrence commencement address
The slavebody and the blackbody
Harlem on my mind : contesting memory - meditation on museums, culture, and integration
Literature and public life
The Nobel lecture in literature
The future of time : literature and diminished expectations
Interlude : Black matter(s). Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unspeakable things unspoken : the Afro-American presence in American literature
Gertrude Stein and the difference she makes
God's language. James Baldwin eulogy
The writer before the page
The trouble with paradise
Introduction of Peter Sellars
Tribute to Romare Bearden
The source of self-regard
Memory, creation, and fiction
Goodbye to all that : race, surrogacy, and farewell
Invisible ink : reading the writing and writing the reading.
From the Book - First Vintage international edition.
Part I: The foreigner's home. The dead of September 11 ; The foreigner's home ; Racism and fascism ; Home ; Wartalk ; The war on error ; A race in mind: the press in deed ; Moral inhabitants ; The price of wealth, the cost of care ; The habit of art ; The individual artist ; Arts advocacy ; Sarah Lawrence commencement address ; The slavebody and the blackbody ; Harlem on my mind: contesting memory
meditation on museums, culture, and integration ;
Women, race, and memory ; Literature and public life ; The Nobel lecture in literature ; Cinderella's stepsisters ; The future of time: literature and diminished expectations
Interlude: Black matter(s). Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Race matters ; Black matter(s) ; Unspeakable things unspoken: the Afro-American presence in American literature ; Academic whispers ; Gertrude Stein and the difference she makes ; Hard, true, and lasting
Part II: God's language. James Baldwin eulogy ; The site of memory ; God's language ; Grendel and his mother ; The writer before the page ; The trouble with paradise ; On "Beloved" ; Chinua Achebe ; Introduction of Peter Sellars ; Tribute to Romare Bearden ; Faulkner and women ; The source of self-regard ; Rememory ; Memory, creation, and fiction ; Goodbye to all that: race, surrogacy, and farewell ; Invisible ink: reading the writing and writing the reading.
From the Audiobook CD - Unabridged.
I. THE FOREIGNER'S HOME. The dead of September 11
A race in mind: the press in deed
The prince of wealth, the cost of care
Sarah Lawrence commencement address
The slavebody and the blackbody
Harlem on my mind: contesting memory: meditation on museums, culture, and integration
Literature and public life
The Nobel lecture in literature
The future of time: literature and diminished expectations
INTERLUDE: BLACK MATTERS. Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unspeakable things unspoken: the Afro-American presence in American literature
Gertrude Stein and the difference she makes
PART II. GOD'S LANGUAGE. James Baldwin eulogy
The writer before the page
The trouble with paradise
Introduction of Peter Sellars
Tribute to Romare Bearden
The source of self-regard
Memory, creation, and fiction
Memory, creation, and fiction
Goodbye to all that: race, surrogacy, and farewell
Invisible ink: reading the writing and writing the reading.
Part 1: The foreigner's home
Interlude: Black matter[s]
