“It’s no wonder…that the American writer keeps running off to Europe.Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy.”
- James Baldwin “The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American” (1959)
February 13, 2025 at 2:23 PM
“It’s no wonder…that the American writer keeps running off to Europe.Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy.”
- James Baldwin “The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American” (1959)