Jon Robin Baitz's plays include The Film Society, The Substance of Fire, Three Hotels and most recently The Paris Letter. He created the hit ABC drama Brothers & Sisters, and is currently writing a mini-series for HBO entitled Cheney's War.
Jim Holt wrote a terrific piece for The New York Times last year about the joys of memorizing poetry. It's a useful and bracing notion to revisit in the slew and slurry of hasti...
Last December, British novelist Zadie Smith gave a lecture at the New York Public Library, called "Speaking in Tongues." Her subject, broadly speaking, was the then-newly electe...
Taschen's book of Dennis Hopper's photographs (1961-1967) is as much dream-film as it is book, and I have spent several hours lost in the panoply of images ranging from movie se...
My end of summer (of death) playlist is selected in honor of Dominick Dunne and all the other great, complicated artists, writers and thinkers we lost this summer. It range...
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