The fire last time / Henry Louis Gates, Jr -- The evolution of James Baldwin as essayist / Nick Aaron Ford -- The ironic voice in Baldiwn's Go tell it on the mountain / Shirley S. Allen -- The south in Go tell it on the mountain : Baldwin's personal confrontation / Horace Porter -- The significance of "Notes of a native son" / Horace Porter -- "Making love in the midst of mirrors": Giovanni's room and Another country / Carolyn Wedin Sylvander -- The exorcising medium : Another country / Trudier Harris -- A protest of his own / Irving Howe -- Some tickets are better : the mixed achievement of James Baldwin / Julius Lester -- Africa and The fire next time / David Leeming -- "Sonny's blues, " James Baldwin's image of black community / John M. Reilly -- The jazz-blues motif in James Baldwin's "Sonny's blues" / Richard N. Albert -- Fire as the symbol of a leadening existence in "Going to meet the man" / Arthenia Bates Millican -- The fire next time this time / Mel Watkins -- Excerpt from "The celebrity's return" / Lynn Orilla Scott -- His cardboard lovers / Mario Puzo.