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January-February 2010
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Baldwin Does Istanbul
In the introduction to her fascinating study, James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade, Magdalena Zaborowska opens with a striking quote from the writer: “Perhaps only someone who is outside of the States realizes that it’s impossible to get out.”
MoreGet to Know Bruno Vogel
WITH HIS ANTI-WAR NOVEL ALF, from the year 1929, the Leipzig writer
Bruno Vogel (1898-1987) acquired a prominent place in gay literary
history. The novel, which Vogel himself subtitled “A sketch,” describes
the love between two high school students, which ends in tragedy. It is
the time of the First World War.
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