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William Gardner Smith\\u2019s roman \\xe0 clef about racism, identity, and bohemian living against the backdrop of violence of Algerian War-era France, has been out of print for decades, but as one reviewer put it, \\u2018the issues Smith raises \\u2026 resonate at least as much now as they did six decades ago.\\u2019 The story of a Black writer who, like Smith himself, moved to Paris to pursue a freedom he couldn\\u2019t find in America, its account of his disillusionment and dawning consciousness of Algeria\\u2019s struggle for independence includes one of the earliest published accounts of the Paris Massacre of 1961.

Adam Shatz, who wrote the introduction for NYRB\\u2019s new edition, discussed The Stone Face\\u2019s achievement and contemporary resonances with Paul Gilroy, Professor of the Humanities at UCL and the Holberg Prize-winning author of There Ain\\u2019t No Black in the Union Jack, The Black Atlantic and Darker Than Blue. 

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