England's longest-running literary soap opera enters a new chapter, as Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes' daughter wages war against ghouls, obsessives and the makers of "Sylvia" (as well as novelists like me).

In his new collection, "Trappings," Richard Howard makes an old question shine again.

The woman shelved her movie-star dreams to change your putrid diapers. This Mother's Day, send her a sonnet.

Our fawning attitude toward the super-rich would once have been anti-American. Now it's the essence of our nation

Rejecting Freudian analysis and embracing his true identity, Edmund White penned two landmarks of gay literature and redefined the autobiographical novel.

The setting of "Breaking Bad" was something of an accident -- but now it's impossible to imagine it anywhere else

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This movie about a former hustler is a devastating portrait of the aging body.

Being a "good" Republican means embracing the anti-government ideology that led to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing

Two new poetry collections, one that toys with the ghosts of the 20th century and one steeped in the pleasures of the here and now.

The TV star wrapped up CPAC with a vintage tour of paranoid history and melodrama

I was such a huge fan of his one album (the newly reissued "Grace") that I was stunned when Buckley showed up in my poetry class. Then I had to read his poem aloud.

In 1996, scientists were convinced they'd found fossils on a Martian meteorite. The controversy continues today

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Real and imaginary events of interest to readers.