The Latest Breaking News from James Baldwin

Part church service, part exploration of Black identity, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter’s tribute to Baldwin revisits his writing in the light of Black Lives Matter

Trump embarrasses himself at the NABJ conference while Vance can’t escape his cat lady obsession

Baldwin’s stinging words on race and America are matched with the kind of musical eloquence that the great writer himself so admired

A concise study of Tennessee Williams, John Cheever, Carson McCullers and James Baldwin, and how their sexuality informed their work, veers between lecture-hall lit crit and novelistic immediacy

In the centenary of his birth year, the author’s voice is as necessary, human and sharp as ever in a reprinted short story collection and memoir from the 1960s and 70s

The writer, who would have turned 100 this week, spoke to, and from, America’s moral conscience

There is Light Somewhere, the title of the latest show by conceptual artist Tavares Strachan at the Hayward Gallery in London, is borrowed from a James Baldwin quote. In his final book of essays, Nothing Personal (1964), the American novelist and social critic wrote:

From a hut that plays music as if it’s history’s jukebox to a rocket fuelled with sugarcane, the Bahamian makes art freighted with history and peopled by the overlooked and flawed

This first major survey of the artist’s work takes us on a journey in search of knowledge

A vivid debut of trans life in Spain after Franco observes a world of violence and petty cruelties with compassion

Judi Dench talking Shakespeare, conversations with bestsellers Marian Keyes and David Nicholls, and a deep dive into the day’s news with Independent journalists and leading thinkers – this year’s Hay Festival programme is fit to burst with unmissable events. Jessie Thompson picks the highlights