A major collection of short stories by one of America’s most important writers—informed by the knowledge the wounds racism leaves in both its victims and it

Contains eight short fiction stories about men and women who are struggling in their own ways to survive the traumas of life.

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection James Baldwin’s commanding prose remains as pressing in its compassionate portrayal of marginalized figures

In James Baldwin’s classic short story, “The Outing,” from Going to Meet the Man, a Harlem church group escapes the city for a summer day-trip of prayer a

Thirty tales of theft, onanism, incest, murder and a host of other forms of perversion and cruelty from the "ungrateful beggar" and "pilgrim of the absolute," L