A new book is out of Kurt Vonnegut's letters, and Slate has been running some selections. His advice to a friend slotted to teach ...

Oscar Wilde was born today in 1854. Roger Ebert has a nice post up for the occasion, featuring one of the best appreciations of Wilde I...

Scott Horton recently interviewed Harold Bloom, who has a new book out. Last year, Horton posted a video of Bloom reading Wallace Stevens...

Congratulations to the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center for their well-deserved Regional Theater Tony Award ! The Regional Theater award h...

Currently, the Los Angeles Opera is staging all four operas in Wagner's epic cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen , directed by Achim Freyer. ...

April is National Poetry Month , which is appropriate, considering how many poets and authors have been inspired to use April and spring to...

It's all film today. Congratulations to Liv Ullman , who just turned 71. She's quite a good director, and an exceptional actress. ...

I was just watching Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Celebration on PBS. American Masters did a good piece on him, and he just played the ...

(Pablo Picasso, "Woman with Fan." Oil on canvas. 1909. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia.) "Whatever creativity...

One of the more remarkable stories I've heard recently comes from a Fresh Air interview with Los Angeles Times journalist Steve Lopez...