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With The Last Great Dream, author Dennis McNally brings together a colorful gallery of poets, musicians, artists, activists, ...

Let’s see a little skin around here! Let’s get naked!” It’s March 1, 1969, and Jim Morrison is in full rock god mode onstage ...

Like a lot of people my age, I grew up with the World Book Encyclopedia. (My family wasn’t smart enough for The Britannica.) ...

Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion will shock anyone who knows Twain only through his writing, in which the ...

Jesse Walker is books editor of Reason ... and he was a finalist for articles on William Burroughs, Merle Haggard, Pappy O'Daniel, and "disaster utopianism." Walker is a graduate of the ...

The action by the US administration, led by President Donald Trump, on revoking the Student and Exchange Visitor Program ...

Southwest Florida’s museums regularly curate traveling art exhibitions as well as artworks from their permanent collections.

“William doesn’t dig. He Burroughs.” This was how Kurt Cobain described the work of one of his literary heroes, William S. Burroughs. First exposed to Burroughs’ work in high ...

In a landmark case in 1966, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that which novel by William Burroughs was not obscene?

Notorious for his drug-fuelled literary experiments and the fact that he shot his partner, beat writer Burroughs also made art inspired by the climate crisis.