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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

Before I read Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, the 1953 Howard Hawks film had already influenced my existence as a young girl in the form of a Marilyn Monroe VHS box set. It wasn’t the glitz and ...

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 ...

Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899. The winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature, Hemingway can be seen as the progenitor of a uniquely minimalistic style that made ...