It was a year of typical teenage fixation and typical teenage frivolity
and the ever-changing intersections of race
Featuring a tone-setting introduction by Quentin Bajac
to create a memorial mosaic: one that not only mirrors Baldwin’s various tones but also closely examines his singular contributions to cinema
immersing readers in a total work of art that looks at the “theater of the everyday”
Pier Paolo Pasolini: Boys Alive Gosha Rubchinskiy It was a year ofNYRB Classics, 2023, softcover, 224 pages, 12. 7 x 20. 2 cm A daring novel, once widely censored, about the scrappy, harrowing, and inventive lives of Rome's unhoused youth by one of Italy's greatest film directors. Boys Alive, published in 1955, was Pier Paolo Pasolini's first novel and remains his best known work of fiction. He'd moved to Rome a few years before, after finding himself embroiled in a provincial sex scandal, and the impact of the city