2 posts tagged ‘James Baldwin’
Refinding James Baldwin
The New Yorker,
We commonly associate the writer with the land of his birth—America—and with the land of his expatriation, France. But a fascinating new exhibit focusses on Baldwin’s years in Turkey, the country that, in his words, saved his life.
James Baldwin’s Anguished Prescience in “I Heard It Through the Grapevine”
Reflecting on the civil-rights era in the nineteen-eighties, the author sounds like our contemporary.