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Nina Simone, James Baldwin, and more.

He has been banned from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.

“I think it’s an example of one of the best displays of my acting in the whole series.”

“I’m very interested in Woody Allen the filmmaker.”

The psychology professor’s emergence as an internet star shows there are plenty of people out there looking for a prophet.

Paramount and Imagine entertainment are bringing his autobiography to the big screen.

“He was very open about his sexuality and never put a label on it.”

Zadie Smith, Lisa Halliday, Sigrid Nunez, and more.

From Russian tsars to Alice in Wonderland.

From Xanax to Adderall, there’s a medicine cabinet’s worth of intoxicants that are influencing, inspiring, and, in some cases, destroying artists.

A look at what changed and what was left intact in Amazon’s Electric Dreams anthology series.

Her new collection of essays brings to an end a 15-year psychodrama period for her writing.

From a women’s bookstore in London.

Learn to make cocktails as well as you drink them.

The actress details responses from her agent, managers: “I just had an exposé about him killed in the L.A. Times; he owes it to me to not do this.”

See photographs of the queens and kings of black style.

“I think it reflects very poorly on French people that you have to ask me that question.”

He represented Trump in both of his divorces.

Just as science-y as you hoped.

Science fiction would never be the same.