Harold Brodkey is the biggest question mark in American literature today. He is a full-fledged legend in the upper reaches of American print society. But you may never have heard of Brodkey, and more ...

An ambitious book is a presumptuous book; it aims at a certain bull’s-eye. Then there’s another sort of great book–the kind that grows to such proportions out of the nature of the material or the ...

"One wants glimpses of the real," wrote Harold Brodkey in his last journal entry before his death. "One almost never gets the real thing," lamented Saul Bellow in his last novel, Ravelstein. Embodied ...

The boy with the purple crayon and the big imagination is all grown up. Zachary Levi brings Harold out of his picture book and into the real world in the first film adaptation of the children’s ...

When I was in college at Cornell, I dated a literary boy who was a protégé of Harold Brodkey's—who I'd never heard of—and this boy gave me a copy of Carver's collection as a gift. My first thought was ...

Sony‘s Columbia Pictures has pushed back the release date for its live-action Harold and the Purple Crayon film by five months, from January 27 to June 30, 2023. The film from Oscar-nominated director ...