Ann Beattie's powerful contrast in her writing of tellingly detailed descriptions and stark silence has caused her work to be placed in the contemporary canon of literary minimalism, a movement identified by critics--not by the so-called minimalists them...

Ann Beattie is a novelist and short-story writer whose evocations of American life at the end of the twentieth century have earned her a wide readership and sustained critical engagement for more than two decades. Beattie's fiction explores the emotional...

HARTFORD -- "I am an American," states Hank Morgan, the Connecticut Yankee of Mark Twain. "I was born and reared in Hartford, in the State of Connecticut -- anyway, just over the river, in the country. So I am a Yankee of the Yankees...

"Imagine," the 1971 album by John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band, has been remixed and remastered at Abbey Road Studios in London, under the supervision of Yoko Ono, and will be reissued by Capitol Records on March 28. It coincides with the...

As I was saying, there’s no one like Frank Langella in American theater—unless, of course, it’s Marian Seldes. Mr. Langella is a star actor who would be at home on a 19th-century stage. He’s a big crowd-pleasing actor, a great big delightful ham. His brilliant...