John Dos Passos

The Reserve By Russell Banks Harper, 287 pages, $24.95 In summer 1898, philosopher William James climbed Mt. Marcy, highest peak in the Adirondacks and a geographic locus of Russell Banks' new novel, "The Reserve." Writing to his wife of his trip in...

November 11, 2007 Norman Mailer, the pugnacious two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who jabbed and bobbed his way, sometimes literally, through an extraordinary career as one of the most original and audacious voices in postwar American letters, died...

++++++++++++++++++++ || || || || || || || || || || || || ++++++++++++++++++++ Of the dozens of bars across the globe that can probably claim legendary writer and imbiber Ernest Hemingway as a former regular, Sloppy Joe's in Key West, Fla., surely...

WALT DISNEY: The Triumph of the American Imagination, by Neal Gabler. Knopf, 851 pp. $35. He was the closest thing the world has ever had to an undisputed King of Cartoons. Yet even he admitted that there were people working for him who could draw better...

Once, when I was a boy, flush with the first passionate love of reading, I made a rough calculation of the number of books I would be able to read in a biblical lifetime of four score years and ten. The sum I arrived at, around 5,000, left me dismayed. So...

Every generation has its party artists, its virtuosos of enjoyment. They leave no lasting traces, except in lore - memories of a divine cocktail, a rosy haze of glamour, the sense that they made others shine. Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway thinks of...

Ernest Hemingway started his relationship with Florida thanks to John Dos Passos, a friend of Hemingway who encouraged him to visit Key West on his way to Cuba. After that visit in 1929, Hemingway's second wife received a house on the island as a wedding...

For Karen Blue, moving to the Village of Oakland Mills in Columbia was a homecoming. After growing up in the community, she left at age 20 and lived in a variety of neighborhoods in the Baltimore area. There were Woodbine, Baltimore City, New...

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It's rare that a modern American screenplay comes along with the depth, humanity and sheer socio-political intelligence of the script for "Sunshine State," John Sayles' ensemble drama about the two communities on a Florida Island called Plantation and two...

One can walk the grand boulevards, the embankments along the Seine, the cobblestone streets of the Latin Quarter, the tree-lined paths of the Bois de Bologne or the Luxembourg Gardens and encounter ghosts from Voltaire and Henry James to William...