Musings on Baldwin

About Beale Street

James Baldwin’s short book The Devil Finds Work is largely unknown. This book-length essay is a cumulative collection of various film reviews. These reviews are unique to the realm of film reviews because they are written through Baldwin’s experiences (as an adult and child) and through a critique of race in American cinema. At the end of The Devil Finds Work, Baldwin ends with his critique of The Exorcist. Here, Baldwin’s famous love rhetoric prevails: