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Langston Hughes

June 2023

  • Aisling Loftus as landlady Queenie and Leah Harvey as her tenant Hortense in the stage adaptation of Small Island by Andrea Levy.

    Home truths: literature’s enduring love affair with landlords

    From Orwell’s ‘horribly observant’ Mrs Wisbeach to Andrea Levy’s benign Queenie – how writers portray landlords tells us much about about changing society through the ages

April 2023

  • Pas de Deux with Roses, black and white photograph, from Julien’s Looking for Langston series, 1989/2016.

    Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is to Me review – ghosts, dandies and seduction

    Luxurious, dreamlike and made to carry the weight of race, sex and politics, the free-roaming films of Isaac Julien beguile but mystify

October 2022

  • Different dreams … Ronkẹ Adékoluẹjo and Giles Terera in Blues for an Alabama Sky.

    Blues for an Alabama Sky review – Harlem renaissance drama is a tale for our times

    A group of friends in 1930s New York pursue diverging dreams in a transfixing production of Pearl Cleage’s play directed by Lynette Linton

September 2022

  • Langston Hughes.

    Where to start with
    Where to start with: Langston Hughes

    The leader of the Harlem Renaissance wrote poems and plays, short stories and children’s books. If you’re new to Hughes’ work, here are some good places to begin

May 2021

  • British author Bernardine Evaristo poses with her book Girl, Woman, Other.

    Salman Rushdie and Bernardine Evaristo on shortlist for more diverse UK exam texts

    OCR board asks teachers to vote on books to make A-level and GCSE English courses more inclusive

June 2020

  • New Orleans in 1960

    Book of the day
    The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett review – a twin's struggle to 'pass' for white

    The author of The Mothers brings fresh sensitivity to the subject of African Americans ‘passing’ in this engrossing novel

January 2020

  • Giselle Allen as Anna and Gillene Butterfield as Rose Maurrant in Street Scene at Leeds Grand.

    Street Scene review – full justice for murder in Manhattan

    Opera North’s striking production of Kurt Weill’s opera is beautifully achieved with moments of dramatic fire

September 2018

  • Roy DeCarava, ​Joe and Julia singing​, 1953 The Sweet Flypaper of Life

    Book of the day
    The Sweet Flypaper of Life by Roy DeCarava and Langston Hughes – review

    This singular hybrid of photography and poetry captures 50s Harlem on the brink of change

August 2018

  • Langston Hughes speaks before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953.

    Langston Hughes 'born a year before accepted date', researcher finds

    Poet researching archives of local African American newspaper finds story reporting on ‘little Langston’ before his recorded birth date

October 2016

  • Shakespeare and Company

    Shakespeare and Company: a 'socialist utopia masquerading as a bookstore' – in pictures

    An English-language bookshop founded by George Whitman on the banks of the Seine in Paris has been hosting writers and selling the occasional book for 65 years. Krista Halverson explores the history of a countercultural institution and the legacy of Sylvia Beach

September 2016

  • Langston Hughes On The Stoop<br>American poet and writer Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967) poses, his jacket over his shoulder, on the steps in front of his house in Harlem, New York, New York, June 1958. (Photo by Robert W. Kelley/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

    Books to give you hope
    Books to give you hope: Staying Alive – Real Poems for Unreal Times

    In a rotten year, when public language has been poisoned by politics and prejudice, the personal integrity of poetry can keep us going

August 2016

  • Langston Hughes On The Stoop<br>American poet and writer Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967) poses, his jacket over his shoulder, on the steps in front of his house in Harlem, New York, New York, June 1958. (Photo by Robert W. Kelley/Time &amp; Life Pictures/Getty Images)

    'The legacy Langston left us': Harlem artists hope to reclaim Hughes home

    Renée Watson and other artists want to turn the historical Langston Hughes house into a not-for-profit collective to preserve Harlem’s cultural legacy

May 2016

  • French activist and poet Jean-Baptiste Redde, aka Voltuan, holds a placard reading "police state is the death of democracy" as people gather on the Place de la Republique in Paris on May 3, 2016 during the "Nuit Debout" ("Up All Night") movement to protest against the government's labour reform bill. French Labour Minister Myriam El Khomri staunchly defended the government's contested labour reform bill ON May 3 as it finally reached parliament after sparking two months of mass protests. / AFP PHOTO / PHILIPPE LOPEZPHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty Images

    Poster poems
    Poster poems: politics

    As bruising electoral battles rage on around us, it’s a good time to remember that poets can raise their voices for public causes, too. Please add your voice below

November 2015

  • Ice-T, performing with Ron McCurdy during the London jazz festival

    Ice-T and Ron McCurdy review – a raging, inspired revival that would make Langston Hughes proud

    The thinking man’s gangsta rapper and jazz trumpeter prove that the poet’s performance piece Ask Your Mama is as relevant today as it was in 1960

September 2015

  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, painted by Joseph Severn

    Top 10s
    Top 10 literary biographies

    From Shakespeare to Shelley, Edith Wharton to VS Naipaul … literature’s greats have biographies to match

December 2014

  • Card by Langston Hughes with Africanesque by Aaron Douglas

    Books blog
    Poets' holiday greetings cards: an intimate glimpse into genius

    How did Charles Bukowski wish friends and family a merry Christmas? A new exhibition reveals not just legendary poets’ softer side but the stages of their lives

September 2014

  • Chicago river

    Reading American cities
    Chicago in books: readers' picks

    From mid-century poverty to contemporary love stories via an account of the 1893 World’s Fair, here is a roundup of our readers’ top Chicago literature

April 2014

  • Sophie Okonedo in A Raisin in the Sun

    Sophie Okonedo on Broadway: 'We try out different things every night'

    In A Raisin in the Sun, her New York theatre debut, the Hotel Rwanda star likes to keep Denzel Washington guessing, she tells Alexis Soloski

October 2013

  • Rowan Oak

    Books blog
    Visiting writers' houses: who's at home?

    Liz Bury: There's no doubting our fascination with places in which authors have lived – it's less certain what we hope to find there

September 2013

  • Leyla McCalla: Vari-Colored Songs – review

    Leyla McCalla sets Langston Hughes's poems to simple arrangements of banjo, guitar and cello on her charming debut, writes Neil Spencer
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