James Baldwin

VS Naipaul, with his rage and flaws, will be remembered for unflinching honesty, mastery of language

VS Naipaul's was an all-encompassing rage: he raged against half-formed societies; he raged against public defecation; he raged against the colonisers and he raged against the colonised.

If Beale Street Could Talk: Barry Jenkins releases trailer on birth anniversary of novelist James Baldwin

Barry Jenkins' If Beale Street Could Talk had been adapted from James Baldwin 1974 novel of the same name