Beginning in Gladness, Ending in Madness 1900–1950 was a golden age of literary eccentricity. Stephen Akey 21 Feb 2024 · 14 min read
The Dualism of Duluoz An eagerly awaited new edition of Gerald Nicosia’s splendid Kerouac biography provides the definitive portrait of a great artist and a profoundly troubled man. David S. Wills 1 Jun 2023 · 15 min read
Paranoid Pop A look back at the remarkable life and career of one of the 20th Century’s most original artists. David Cohen 19 Dec 2022 · 20 min read
Yukio Mishima: Japan’s Cultural Martyr Mishima’s reputation has grown in the new century and today there is more serious interest in his work than ever before. Andrew Rankin 11 Dec 2019 · 11 min read
Bukowski: Recommended Reading for the Damned Were he still alive, he most certainly would not meet the demands of today’s “sensitivity readers,” nor those imbedded in the big publishing houses who scan a writer’s work for transgressions, nor those on social media who do the same with a writer’s personal life. Clint Margrave 26 May 2019 · 11 min read
