If Beale Street Could Talk

If Beale Street Could TalkWe are in Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of James Baldwins novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling struggle of two families to win justice for Fonny. To this love story James Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity, charging it with universal

smaller groups and solo performers took centre stage

” True though that may be

while his former comrades exert their threats…

This remarkable book contains some of his finest writing

Thompson dives deep into both Western and Buddhist philosophy to explain how the goals of science and religion are fundamentally different

the album is completely indicative of the times

In A Girl’s Story

Page after page brings viewers face-to-face with astonishing landscapes

Fresh out of detox and five years after his involvement in the theft of Picasso’s masterpiece The Weeping Woman from the NGV

Kapuscinski demonstrates an extraordinary capacity to describe and to explain the individual meaning of grand political abstractions

13 mins): short film about the last man to leave a former leper colony

described by Consequence Of Sound as “by far the most important punk record ever” influencing the Sex Pistols