Nicholas Boggs charts Baldwin’s rise from ‘strange child’ to fearless writer, confident in his sexuality and committed to the civil rights cause

The poet’s meditation on the deaf experience is rich, complex and full of compassion

Colin Grant recalls his first encounter with Black Skin, White Masks, a revelatory study of black consciousness by the radical psychiatrist

The author’s rigorous study of colonialism in the Caribbean is a necessary corrective to centuries of British mendacity