The Fragility of James Baldwin
JAMES BALDWIN The Life Album by Magdalena J. Zaborowska Yale Univ. Press. 320 pages, $28. IN HER NEW BIOGRAPHY of James Baldwin, Magdalena J. Zaborowska is hopelessly in love…More
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Four Men and One James Baldwin
IN 2017, the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture acquired the papers of author and gay icon James Baldwin. Consisting of more than 81 boxes of material, much of it previously unavailable, this archive chronicles Baldwin’s life from the age of fourteen in 1938 to his death in 1987. Author Nicholas Boggs took full advantage of this vital material to write the first major biography of Baldwin since 1991’s Talking at the Gates. A monumental work of research and literary analysis, Baldwin: A Love Story significantly expands our knowledge of the legendary author.
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Let There Be Art
Elias commissioned essays from nineteen artists, critics, writers, and scholars for Speculative Light, including Baldwin biographers Nicholas Boggs, Robert Reid-Pharr, Magdalena Zaborowska, and Leeming.
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Giovanni’s Reach
The gay community is quite right to claim Baldwin with pride, as we’d be hard-pressed to find a better symbol for our own stubborn unwillingness to be forgotten.
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Writers Were Meant to Be Seen
James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance celebrates the 100th anniversary of the writer’s birth in 1924. The exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington is a small but radical combination of faces and events that focus on Baldwin’s Civil Rights activities during the 1960s along with the activists he knew and shared his politics with, including Martin Luther King, Jr., gay activist Bayard Rustin, playwright Lorraine Hansberry (who was largely closeted), singer Nina Simone, poet Langston Hughes, and many others.
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