In his first new short story collection since the mid '80s, Doctorow offers up five stories that puncture the bright, bloated balloon of [...]

"I write and have done so primarily for personal pleasure," Franz Wright once told an interviewer. This private motivation is especially evident in [...]

As an aspiring screenwriter and director, I subscribe to Weekly Variety. A recent issue featured an article about problems screenwriters face in Hollywood [...]

Kinky Friedman, that loveable, footloose, animal-loving, Hebrew cowboy from Texas, plans to run for governor of his home state as an independent in [...]

A powerful piece of visual art can grab hold of you and pull you in, allowing you to experience the torment and beauty [...]

Covering a 30-year span leading up to the end of apartheid in South Africa, Mda's latest novel digs into the grotesque social poison [...]

It takes courage to expend the energy to create, come what may of one's efforts. The same is true of creative activism. Clamor [...]

In looking over In Company: An Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 what strikes me most is not the poems, or even [...]

Huyler, a practicing emergency physician, creates a gripping medical thriller about a mysterious infectious disease and a young doctor's heroic attempts to trace [...]

Spiced with an effective blend of anecdotes and analysis, Sarna's book tells the often troubled story of the 350-year history of Jews in [...]