My mother was an alcoholic beatnik poet with the best handwriting you ever saw but who got herself trapped in a bad marriage ...

An iconic image of Kate Moss marked an explosive moment of change in Britain – and helped to create the culture we now live in. It's among the photos displayed in a new exhibition.

Poet Allen Ginsberg envisioned the year 2025 in his 1994 poem "City Lights City" in his book "Death & Fame: Last Poems 1993-1997." Who are the Madisonians who spark our imaginations, challenge and ...

Poems are such versatile things. They can be as concise as a well-written line but also long enough to fill an entire book.

A newly restored film adaptation of Amiri Baraka’s provocative 1964 play evoking racial and sexual anxiety is showing at the ...

The commemoration of philosopher and Sufi saint Lalon Fakir in Bangladesh has been cancelled following objections from various Islamic groups, local media reported on Thursday.

The new film “Peter Hujar’s Day”, which recently premiered at Sundance, is based on the transcript of a 1974 conversation between Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz ...

Writers flocked to Tangier following the Second World War, when it was capital of the evocatively named International Zone. Bowles was at the centre of an eclectic literary cast that included William ...

Billionaires are building luxury getaways to hide from civilization’s collapse. Cool. We’re better off without them ...

Foreign aid often is connected to wars overseas. The top five recipients of U.S. aid (including both USAID and non-USAID ...

China’s most famous artist lives quietly in Portugal. But exile is hard, even if it’s golden. On the occasion of his latest ...

Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall star in the film that The Hollywood Reporter called one of the director’s best. After its ...