The Unsparing Confessions of ‘‘Giovanni’s Room’’

This piece is drawn from the introduction to a new edition of ‘‘Giovanni’s Room,’’ by James Baldwin, which is out from Everyman’s Library, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Group, on March 1st. Read Edwidge Danticat on ‘‘Go Tell It on the Mountain.’’ James Baldwin’s essay “The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American,”