A Citizen of the World: Orson Welles at 100
On the occasion of Orson Welles’s 100th birthday, an excerpt from a new biography by F.X. Feeney....
On the occasion of Orson Welles’s 100th birthday, an excerpt from a new biography by F.X. Feeney....
One of the greatest American writers of the 20th century is one that few Americans read, if they’ve heard of him at all....
ldquo;EDITORIAL CARTOONS ARE STALE, Simplistic, and Just Not Funny,” read a recent headline in Slate. “If you study all of the recent Pulitzer winners in the cartooning category,” writes Farhad Manjoo, “you’ll see that ...
Photo by Carl Van Vechten, 1948 (Library of Congress). Gore Vidal died on Tuesday, July 31, 2012, in Los Angeles. IN THE “BLACK WINTER” OF DECEMBER, 1953, novelist Gore Vidal checked his bank book and made a life-altering ...
Bradbury addresses every reader with a fatherly clarity. He’s instructive, in the profound sense of passing experience on....
He seemed poised at last for the first-class recognition he had worked for so vigorously his whole life....
Improbably close readings of questionably canonical texts are the order of the day in these books....