The complexity of Burckhardt's work is easy to overlook, because he calls attention to neither his mastery nor his labor.

Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber (paperback) This month Library of America restores to print, via a new paperback edition, Farber on Film: The Collected Film Writings of Mann...

A functioning democracy needs dissent and debate. Trump won the 2024 election with 49.8 percent of the vote (with 77,302,580 total votes) over Kamala Harris’s 48.3 percent (with 75,017,613 total vo…

A high school friend of David Lynch recalls the filmmaker’s early years as budding painter and fraternity brother.

Timothée Chalamet chose the artist’s lesser-known songs when performing last night.

The picture of elegance, my grandfather. I wanted his photograph in the dictionary.

“When it comes to the unspeakable facts in the history of America, it's largely the artists who've been willing to show us what others would not,” the art historian said in an interview with Hyperalle...

Lit Hub is excited to feature another entry in a new series from Poets.org: “enjambments,” a monthly interview series with new and established poets. This month, they spoke to Samantha …

What Seamus Heaney gave me

Author photograph by Gerard Malanga. Firecrackers and whistles sounded the advent of the New Year of 1965 in St. Louis. Stripteasers ran from the bars in Gaslight Square to dance in the street when mi...

The discovery of a rare picture of the tragic, handsome poet, made by his lover Paul Verlaine, set off a bidding war in Paris.

Three decades later, “Autobiography of a Face,” a sensation when it was published, has lost none of its force.

How class and the counterculture shaped the art of Mike Kelley.

When Taylor Swift announced the title of her new album The Tortured Poets Department at the Grammy Awards in February, a question popped into my mind: How can poets and poetry enter into conversati…

The New York City writer and painter Joe Brainard comes alive in a new collection of letters.

The elusive correspondence artist saw himself reflected in the writer of enigmatic letters to the world.

The “Nosferatu” actor and the writer discuss solitude, self-editing and the playfulness of their work.

The novelist on Virginia Woolf’s luminous prose, obsessively rereading James Baldwin and why Saint Augustine is his favourite writer

Joe Brainard’s trove of letters leads him down from Mount Olympus on a staircase of his own words.