In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

This contemplation is the lead story of this week’s edition of The King Beat, but it’s one of two headlines thanks to the ...

Exclusive: Jeremiah Knupp, René W. Solomon, Cuyler Ballenger, and Noah Carlson star in Minervini's narrative debut.

Joy Harjo is one of the most revered poets in the United States. On this week's Wild Card with Rachel Martin, the former U.S.

The adage "you can't go home again" (pulled from the title of Thomas Wolfe's novel and repeated in the opening scene) isn't exactly true for Badgley's former bookstore manager Joe, who returns to New ...

Reading the newly released “Notes to John,” it’s hard not to wonder how the late author Joan Didion would feel about having ...

For her final film performance, Aaliyah takes centerstage in Queen of the Damned, a standalone film adapted from Anne Rice’s 1988 Interview with the Vampire sequel. Aaliyah plays Akasha, a former ...

The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or the Bardo Thodol, is arguably the most popular Buddhist text in Europe and the United States. Carl Jung loved it. So did John Lennon. But why? What is this text all ...

The Great Gatsby is synonymous with parties, glitz and glamour – but this is just one of many misunderstandings about the book that began with its first publication a century ago, in April 1925.

People from across the United Kingdom swarmed this small town, and soon book sellers from other kingdoms and republics stuffed the shelves of neighboring shops, turning the empty structures into ...

Alexis Kirschbaum, head of Bloomsbury Trade, the book's UK publisher, says, "Patti Smith is a living legend. While her lyrics and music have inspired generations of listeners, her books have made her ...

Smith's new memoir is her 'most intimate and visionary work' yet Patti Smith has another memoir in the works! Fifteen years ...