Geoffrey Gorer, anthropologist of Englishness, once remarked that “though most English men and women cannot ‘let themselves go’, they love to think and read about people who do throw off inhibitions, ...
“Langston was as a fine man, the perfect companion”, Henri Cartier-Bresson told Langston Hughes’s biographer, Arnold Rampersad, in 1981. As footloose young bohemians, the French photographer and the ...