Arts, Briefly: Diary Revisits American Tragedy
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On March 30, 1908, Chester Gillette, 25, was executed at Auburn State Prison in New York for the murder of his pregnant lover, Grace Brown, on an Adirondack lake in 1906. His sensational trial inspired the Theodore Dreiser novel âAn American Tragedy,â the 1951 film âA Place in the Sunâ and an opera staged by the Metropolitan Opera. Now, as the 100th anniversary of Gilletteâs electrocution approaches, Hamilton College has published âThe Prison Diary and Letters of Chester Gillette,â taken from papers donated to the college last year by Gilletteâs grandniece, Marlynn McWade-Murray, The Associated Press reported. The editors, Jack Sherman and Craig Brandon, said Gilletteâs writings offer neither an explicit admission of guilt nor any clear assertion of innocence, but they do provide a window into his character and his metamorphosis in prison from a blithe youth into an introspective, compassionate, religious adult. In the penultimate entry in the diary, Gillette wrote: âIn all that I have done, I hope I have done as men would have me do. I know that I am right with God, and that is the all important thing.â.
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&#34;This is a terrible tragedy and an unbearable loss.&#34;
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âThere Will Be Blood,â Paul Thomas Andersonâs epic American nightmare, arrives belching fire and brimstone and damnation to hell.
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A close-up chronicle of the most sustained period of street-to-street fighting that Americans have encountered since the Vietnam War.
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Just after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks happened, stock market historian Yale Hirsch called the event &quot;a modern Pearl Harbor by a band of terrorists with more than twice the dead [that] will change our lives forever.
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Bloodied and bewildered strangers led each other from the wreckage of the London bombings last July 7. A year later, many of them have forged close bonds &amp;#151; sharing their experiences in a network of blogs.
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TIME.comix on 'The 9/11 Report' and 'The Pride of Baghdad'
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While people worldwide paused to remember the events of Sept. 11, 2001, a few hundred residents and visitors here gathered to remember a different air disaster -- one that occurred the early afternoon of Sept.
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On the news, the war plays as tragedy. Can television producers repackage it as situation comedy?
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LOS ANGELES  - "A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman" starts with a reminder that the terrorist attacks of 2001 were not the first time that the date of September 11 was burned into a nation's collective memory.
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On a harrowing trip inside Iraq's toughest city, TIME gets an up-close view of the U.S.'s daily battles against the insurgents. An eyewitness account reveals why the war remains as deadly as ever
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A lengthy account of the Sept. 11 attacks has been put online by the Library of Congress in the form of nearly 170 audio and video interviews, totaling 40 hours, with photos, drawings, written narratives and poems.
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Rarely has such a far-off tragedy seemed so close to home. News of Asia's devastating tsunami reached the living rooms of most Americans in a matter of just hours, through dramatic video taken by tourists, Internet postings and cell phones. The catastrophe has tugged at heartstrings in a way few international disasters have.
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The 11 September 2001  attacks on America are to be recalled at ceremonies in New York and across the US.
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A published account of Italyâs national malaise prompted a critical â and very public â collective self-assessment.
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Philip Shenonâs book chronicles the human frailty and folly that went into âThe 9/11 Report.â
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Behind the lens: A Times photographer's contemporaneous account from ground zero.