The landmark work on race in America from James Baldwin, whose life and words are immortalized in the Oscar-nominated film I Am Not Your Negro

`We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation`

James Baldwin`s impassioned plea to `end the racial nightmare` in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal `letters`, The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin`s early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice.