Law & Order’s Jesse L Martin narrates two powerful essays examining the Black experience in the US, the first in a series marking the author’s centenary year

Hester underlines the importance of place in this study of seven queer lives, from EM Forster to Josephine Baker

Verbal clashes from history are being thrillingly restaged for modern audiences. Do these grand battles prove we’ve lost the art of disagreement? And could watching them anew change the politics of tomorrow?

Authors from Jeanette Winterson to William Shakespeare tell stories of people doubting not just God but everything that gives their life meaning

The author and screenwriter on his love of comic books, James Baldwin’s moral fury, and how The Buddha of Suburbia is one of the funniest books ever written

The Costa winner on the James Baldwin novel she most cherishes, devouring Willard Price adventures as a child, and the sex scene she wishes she had written

From American giants such as Toni Morrison and James Baldwin to memoirs by Xiaolu Guo and Vladimir Nabokov, Nadia Owusu picks the best works that explore notions of home

The ‘white problem’ ... Baldwin’s writings spark a timely and absorbing engagement with American history

The great writer’s passion and resilience resonate anew in Eddie S Glaude Jr’s timely, powerful study

Are we living through a moment of lasting change? Two authors discuss Black Lives Matter, the Harper’s letter and where we go from here

The compelling Elena Ferrante adaptation finally returns