Richard Schickel is a contributing writer to Book Review and a film critic for Time magazine. He is the author of many books, including "Clint Eastwood: A Biography" and the forthcoming "Elia Kazan: A ...

Postmodernist ideas are the new craze within the Western world. In a time where “income inequality” and “racism” are growing at unprecedented historical rates, everyone is increasingly looking for ...

In 1985, novelist John Barth published a collection of essays, “The Friday Book,” a title derived from the author’s habit of writing and teaching fiction from Monday through Thursday and devoting ...

A prime attraction is Graves’ painting studio. Works there might seem like plein-air exercises, but Nichols explains that all of them date from after he was paralysed. 'He often drew from memory or ...

In the weeks after 9/11, when many people lived in fear of more terrorist attacks, the satirical newspaper The Onion milked the moment for all the sardonic humor it could. The paper published a list ...

It was to be expected that when the time came to organize a definitive retrospective exhibition of the paintings of It was to be expected that when the time came to organize a definitive retrospective ...

In pitting the arguments of Judith Butler against those of George Orwell, Stephen K. Roney, a former president of the Editors’ Association of Canada and an editor of multimedia course materials at ...

“There are facets of contemporary culture that not even a Jonathan Swift could satirize,” George Will writes in a recent Newsweek column — blithely overlooking the fact that there are facets of his ...

Richard England, arguably Malta's most influential architect, might not be as well-known as others in the postmodernist realm, but he has been prolific, his work mesmerising and inspiring to this day; ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. As part of our monthlong, fractured discussion of postmodern fiction, ...

You can’t really call Thomas Pynchon the Greta Garbo of American literature. There are actual photos of the reclusive screen star. Nor can you say he’s the J.D. Salinger of modern literature. Salinger ...

Architect and designer Michael Graves has died at 80 of natural causes at his home in Princeton, New Jersey. He was perhaps best known for projects such as the Portland Municipal Services Building and ...