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World Service,1 min

James Baldwin’s arrival in Paris

The Forum

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In 1948, writer James Baldwin left the United States of America and moved to France. Baldwin scholar Magdalena Zaborowska reflects on how this transatlantic move gave the African-American writer a chance to see things differently. Photo: James Baldwin (Louis Liotta/New York Post Archives /(c) NYP Holdings, Inc. via Getty Images)

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