Baldwin’s Istanbul offers a model of creating elsewhere against the lie

Evidence

But it strikes me that the lesson Baldwin’s time in Istanbul after King’s assassination holds for our own resides in his approach to elsewhere. We have to create spaces to accomplish this work without succumbing to the depression and exhaustion produced by the onslaught of the reassertion of the lie in Trump’s America. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 429

Categorization

• XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s core thesis on ‘the after times’ and ‘the lie’ as the operative concepts of late Baldwin.
• DEFINE: ‘The lie’ is invoked here as the reasserted false national story that exhausts those who resist it.