The Screaming Pope

In the current issue of Publishers Weekly , Andrei Codrescu, poet, NPR commentator, editor of Exquisite Corpse , learned gadfly and now Lud...

“Travelling to funerals was once an important family rite, but with greater secularity and a mobile population increasingly disconnected fro...

Daniel Bell, who wrote The End of Ideology , which was a forerunner of Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man , and Bruce Go...

Jack LaLanne, the fitness freak who died on Sunday at age 96, was the product of a school of thinking that actually began in the Middle Ages...

Pasolini’s Mamma Roma, currently in revival at Film Forum , begins with Da Vinci’s Last Supper , ends with a reference to El Greco, in a des...

Go down to Banjo Jim’s on Avenue C on a Monday night and listen to a group named Lichtman’s Brain Cloud . They call what they play Western...

Hugh Hudson, the Academy Award winning director of Chariots of Fire , has signed on to direct a sequel called Chariots of Shit. The year is...