TELEVISION Food Junkies BBC2, 24 April It's a rare TV programme that opens with a professional purchaser. But the final part of the BBC's Food Junkies series hit the road in Portugal with Richard Hind, Waitrose's central fruit buyer. A decision...

After all the years that we've opposed the legalization of casino gambling in this state, we're beginning to wonder whether we made a mistake. The state of Ohio seems determined as any gaming hall to cause its citizens to lose their money with...

Yes, you read the title correctly. I am addicted to the number puzzle Sudoku. Let me say right away that I am not a serious addict. I’ve never downloaded a game, and I have never bought a Sudoku book. However, when I find a New...

THICK AS THIEVES: A BROTHER, A SISTER—A TRUE STORY OF TWO TURBULENT LIVESBy Steve Geng Henry Holt, 292 pages, $24 Several of New Yorker satirist and editor Veronica Geng’s friends—among them Philip Roth, Jamaica Kincaid and Roy Blount Jr.—were sitting around in an Italian restaurant...

In the following essay, Skerl discusses common elements in Burroughs's novels from Junkie to Nova Express.

In the following essay, Murphy argues that Queer and Junkie contain no “abstract structure of rules,” such as linguistic rules, and that the only approach to understanding these texts is by following their textual “cartography.”

[Junky] has its historical value, for it was one of the very first books to crack the veneer of the Eisenhower era, to reveal its schizoid nature, that empty smile glowing at the top and the nightmare working its way up through the back alleys. And it has its literary value, too. In some ways its detachment, its amoral cool, its clear hard prose give its nightmare vision a force that even Burroughs' later experimental explosions and naked lunches cannot match. Lee's search for "the uncu...