Think of a seashell. Don’t think of a conch. In fact, forget, for now, about univalve mollusks entirely. Think of Shell, the ...

In his Collected Poems, his verse becomes an index for a life lived between ambition, pain, and disappointment.

Did anyone else get the feeling that AWIAL -- despite being ostensibly based in the Mumbai of today -- is actually set in a ...

Pete Doherty wanted a band to believe in so he made it himself. It took him to places his younger self would never believe.

Part IV: Mark Twain and Dan DeQuille — Dan’s Coup D’état: A brand from the campfire was seized and Dan yelled “hold on” and ...

You told me I need to put something in my arm, now you can't go get pardoned. You have to hold the weight of that decision, that's your job! What's in my arm? What's about to come out? You lie ...

Before you know it he'll go on to Bitburg, he'll sell arms to the ayatollah ... He threw in some "nation of immigrants" poetry, but he didn't address his failure. The word "Afghanistan" wasn ...

The singer who embodied the Swinging Sixties in her youth gained a power in her later years that suited her better.

You told me I need to put something in my arm, now you can't go get pardoned. You have to hold the weight of that decision, that's your job! What's in my arm? What's about to come out?” ...

An epic review of a memoir so good that it really, absolutely ought to appear on tomorrow's Ockham awards longlist for best ...

We present to you this collection of poems honoring the Virgin Mary written by Thomas Merton. See the end of this page for Thomas Merton in Photographs. Because my will is simple as ... cold sky And ...

Here’s a toast to Marianne Faithfull, a true rock & roll legend. Nobody was ever better at being an old rock star, except maybe Leonard Cohen. Yet the difference is that Cohen didn’t release his debut ...