"Doc" spotlights forgotten novelist Humes
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Immy Humes' documentary  about her late father, Harold L. Humes, has a poignancy that  comes not only from its subject -- a largely forgotten but  highly important literary figure of the late 1950s and early  '60s -- but also from the inclusion of interviews with such  departed contemporaries as Norman Mailer, George Plimpton,  William Styron and Timothy Leary.
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A. R. Gurneyâs play, revived respectfully by the Keen Company, remains an insightful mood piece but one thatâs perhaps best in its details.
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Martin Cruz Smith still writes soulfully and evocatively about Arkady Renko, the wary, astutely cynical Russian detective who first appeared 26 years ago in âGorky Park.â
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LONDON: A British housewife has inherited one of the most important books in English literature from a distant relative she never knew existed.
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With a lifetimeÂs worth of stinging observations and sharp insights, Gore VidalÂs new memoir is unmissable.
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Despite the Hollywood star power in this documentary about the inventor of gonzo journalism, the best parts are those in which somebody reads Hunter S. ThompsonÂs work.
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One of the world's greatest living novelists talks about the author's ego, what we don't say about 9/11, and why the English hate writers
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Leos Janacek has entered the opera mainstream in recent decades, but this Czech composerâs final and darkest opera, âFrom the House of the Dead,â has been largely overlooked, perhaps understandably.
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A new documentary sets Toots Shorâs rise and long, sad decline against the backdrop of 20th-century American social history.
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Arts & entertainment: The dates don't add up, say critics of acclaimed book by orphaned survivor of Sierra Leone's war
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Arts & entertainment: Francisco Goldman discusses his first non-fiction book and overcoming his own grief
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Some literary-minded bloggers seemed a little piqued at comments on their hobby made by Doris Lessing in her Nobel lecture this month.
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The literary master's dazzling, dizzying 1,085-page new novel is not for those looking for a snack
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Former television journalist-turned-writer Kati Marton remembers a brief period when anti-Semitic prejudice waned, and creative genius flowered in Budapest.
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A new initiative revives one of the great literary controversies: that the Bard was not who we think he was
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Denis Johnsonâs wildly ambitious new novel reads like a whacked-out, hallucinogenic variation on a Vietnam classic, and yet he manages to turn it into something original and potent.
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The recent discovery of a never-published Ernest Hemingway tale may not have been much of a find after all.