On this week’s episode, A.O. Scott joins host Gilbert Cruz to talk about the value of close reading poetry. And the Book Review’s poetry editor Greg Cowles recommends four recently published ...

The Doors’ spirited drummer regaled the crowd at the SVA Theatre in Manhattan with tales of his days with the legendary band ...

Vanishing without a trace in 1988, the stolen marble bust of rock legend Jim Morrison ignited decades of mystery and ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: A long-lost bust of singer Jim ... Morrison for decades since his passing, with millions of fans still listening to his albums, reading his ...

Before Woodstock and FM radio shaped the sound of the 1970s, the 1960s were already roaring with American bands pushing rock ...

Toni Morrison was an editor for 12 years, even as she wrote her own masterpieces. I spoke to her authors about what it was ...

Only five people came to Jim Morrison’s funeral in Paris. His girlfriend, Pamela Courson, recited one of the 27-year-old rockstar’s poems from memory. Then the small crowd (which included ...

A t 80 years old, John Densmore still swings harder than most drummers half his age and speaks with the kind of calm fury ...

A long-lost bust of singer Jim Morrison, which had been stolen from ... with millions of fans still listening to his albums, reading his poetry, and many visiting his grave in the famous Père ...

Poetry and translation are both about picking the just-right word. But reading multiple translations makes an implicit case ...

The Queens of the Stone Age frontman discusses a new short film documenting the band's 2024 gig in the Catacombs of Paris.