Just like In Search of Lost Time, the narrative trajectory of Drake’s albums shows us an arriviste filled with hope and ...

August 6, 2025 – "Greene's work keeps one’s mind on tiptoe. Illusions beget disillusions but also hopes; hopes beget ...

Really playing a character is about a lot more than whether you have to take your shirt off. Sometimes you do, sometimes you ...

In this courtroom sketch, Sean “Diddy” Combs reacts after he was convicted of prostitution-related offenses but acquitted of ...

From The Old Man by the Sea by Domenico Starnone (Europa Editions), translated from the Italian by Oonagh Stransky: ...

The twins had long harbored the desire to murder their father and make the modest point that greed and desecration do not always go unpunished.

I remember sitting in red tights and buckled shoes in my childhood room as my word processor booted up. My father had taught himself DOS programming, and boxy yellow letters blinked on the gray green ...

Marguerite Duras on her mother, a woman whose lived contradictions rivaled those of the greatest characters in literature.

Marguerite Duras was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Her breakthrough international success came with The Lover ...

The story refers to the twins’ father’s participation in “the Slaughter, when all animal life was being extinguished by guns ...

In a dream someone says to me, “You have been left in the dust.” An idiom for being left behind, outdone, but I hear it literally. I’m covered in dust and left there. It’s in my lungs. I am allergic ...

Before I read Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the 1953 Howard Hawks film had already influenced my existence as a young girl in the form of a Marilyn Monroe VHS box set. It wasn’t the glitz and ...