In 1950, James Baldwin and his lover, the painter Lucien Happersberger, set out from Paris for the mountains of Switzerland, where Baldwin, then around 25, hoped to climb his way out of a creative ...

In the financial district of Manhattan, an A.I.-equipped typewriter, fueled by James Baldwin’s works, types back at you with answers to your questions.

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there's a Monster Mash and you can meet the “Ghosts of Somerville,” visit the ThotBot, hear poet Phillis Wheatley, see the Cirque of the ...

Who did James Baldwin love and how did those relationships shape his work? Author and scholar Nicholas Boggs set out to answer these questions in a remarkable new biography of the late American writer ...

The book, organized in sections centered around the writer's four great loves, details how Baldwin spent decades wrestling with his own sexuality, racism in the U.S. and abroad and the cost of fame.

When I received my reviewer’s advanced copy of Nicholas Boggs’ epic biography of James Baldwin, “Baldwin: A Love Story,” several months in advance of the Aug. 19 publication date, I was determined to ...

OAKLAND — Two brothers have been charged with beating and stomping a fellow nightclub patron while onlookers filmed, and one of them got into the music industry after his release from prison for a ...

The radical lives of James Baldwin. While Baldwin was persecuted in part because of whom he loved, it was love that impelled him to bring about a more utopian future in which such persecution was not ...

"Love was a crucial subject for James Baldwin," said Chris Vognar in The Boston Globe, so it's appropriate that this first major Baldwin biography in 31 years "can be seen as an act of love." Author ...

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