In Oak Bluffs, film premieres, book fairs and star-studded soirees attracted fans who came for the art and stayed for the community.
Category: Books and Literature
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Elizabeth McGovern as a Sultry Bombshell? This Isn’t ‘Downton Abbey.’
“It’s very liberating to take off that psychological corset,” the actress said of portraying the rambunctious Hollywood star Ava Gardner onstage.
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The Kind of Pain She Wanted
How sexy rope play helped one overthinker be in the moment.
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‘Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of a Nation’: Scratching the Surface of a Deep Legacy
Ebs Burnough’s movie covers the novel as well as its influence on generations of readers, including many artists.
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Art Spiegelman, John Waters and Other Banned Artists on How Censorship Changed Them
Nine artists on how American censorship changed their work and their lives.
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Love Jack Kerouac? Read These Great American Road Trip Books Next.
Come along for the ride as our three critics back-seat drive their way through America. (Rest stops provided.)
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Morton Mintz, Muckraking Crusader for Consumers, Dies at 103
As a longtime Washington Post reporter and an author of 10 books, he held corporate America accountable for safe pharmaceuticals and cars.
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Was Elvis Presley’s Manager the Colonel a Villain? It’s Complicated.
The music historian Peter Guralnick’s new book, which draws on documents Tom Parker left behind, paints a different picture of an infamous industry figure.
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Thomas Sayers Ellis, Poet of ‘Percussive Prosody,’ Dies at 61
A verbal gymnast on and off the page (as well as a musician and photographer), he was a founder of the Dark Room Collective, a community of writers, and fostered a boom in Black poetry.
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The Circus Comes to Williamstown, With Celebrities and Beefcake
Pamela Anderson, Amber Heard and Tennessee Williams on ice are part of Jeremy O. Harris’s big tent at the famous summer festival.
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Rock’s Legends Were Messy. You’d Never Know That From Today’s Movies.
People used to eat up salacious stories of rock ’n’ roll excess. Now they’re the last thing filmmakers want to touch.
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His Old Books Look Great Beside New Clothes
Geoff Snack, a vintage and rare book dealer, is getting calls from small boutiques as well as mass retailers that want what he’s selling.