News about Langston Hughes, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

2015年2月16日 · By the time the British artist Isaac Julien’s iconic short essay-film “Looking for Langston” was released, in 1989, Julien’s ostensible subject, the enigmatic poet and race man Langston...

How Langston Hughes Brought His Radical Vision to the Novel. Poor black lives weren’t depicted in the serious fiction of Hughes’s day.

2018年8月9日 · Hughes, a leading light of the Harlem Renaissance whose work aimed to capture the whole of the African-American experience, was only 18 when he wrote that poem. Or was he?

The papers are housed in 643 boxes and are arranged in 22 series: Personal Correspondence, Professional Correspondence, Family Correspondence, Third Party Correspondence, General Writings, Poems, Song Lyrics, Newspaper Columns, Translations by Langston Hughes, Printed Appearances of Hughes's Writings, Writings of Others, Photographs, Public ...

2023年3月4日 · The last issue of CHALLENGE (3/1/23) remembered Langston Hughes as a writer sharply critical of Jim Crow segregation during World War II and as a poet for the working class of the U.S.—particularly Black workers. Now we’ll flash back to the 1920s and 1930s, the period when Hughes became an advocate for multiracial, anti-capitalist revolution.

2023年1月24日 · Langston Hughes was a defining figure of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance as an influential poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer, essayist, political commentator and social...

Newspaper article clippings for Langston Hughes’ The Prodigal Son and Bertolt Brecht’s The Exception and the Rule, Greenwich Mews Theatre, New York, New York. Coverage. New York, New York. Date. 1965 September 3. Source. Langston Hughes ephemera collection, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library

2025年2月25日 · Langston Hughes was an American writer who was an important figure in the Harlem Renaissance and who vividly depicted the African American experience through his writings, which ranged from poetry and plays to novels and newspaper columns.

"Langston Hughes can write pages that throb with the abrupt rhythms of popular music. He can draw thumbnail sketches of Harlem lives and deaths that etch themselves harshly in the...