Jimmy (2026)

In the autumn of 1948, a 24-year-old James Baldwin boarded a plane out of New York, bound for Paris on the strength of a literary fellowship. What began as a temporary escape stretched into nearly a decade of self-imposed exile, a vital chapter in which the young author traded the suffocating grip of American segregation for the gritty embrace of Algeria’s enclaves and the bohemian buzz of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. It was here, among the Left Bank’s radical thinkers and fellow outcasts, that Baldwin shook off his own alienation and forged the raw, incendiary prose of his earliest masterpieces.