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

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

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

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

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

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.

My problems started much earlier than the night before deadline—they started in my childhood, when I completely failed to learn Russian, and though an inability to function in a writer’s original ...

PART I--THE SOLDIER'S MARCH GENERAL:(Wry, weary, humane)A victory march?Almost. Not quite.The enemy capitalIs nearly in sight.The decisive battlesHave all been fought and won.In a very short time, now ...

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Elizabeth Hardwick 1916–2007 “The greatest gift is the passion for reading,” Elizabeth Hardwick told The Paris Review in her 1985 Art of Fiction interview. “It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it ...

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

Our seminal blonde, Lorelei Lee, comes from Little Rock, Arkansas, with a dubious backstory full of intrigue. An archetypal faux-naïf, she uses her perceived naïveté to get the better of the gentlemen ...