Since the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William S. Burroughs has been well known as a legendary figure of the Beat Generation and as an important writer of experimental fiction. As a Beat writer, Burroughs was part of a seminal, postwar literary an...

Fifty years after Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs first met in Manhattan, New York University sponsored a conference celebrating the legacy of the Beat Generation. Burroughs, whose picture appeared prominently in several places on...

An innovative and controversial author of experimental fiction, William S. Burroughs (1914-1997) is best known for Naked Lunch (1959), a bizarre account of his fourteen-year drug addiction and a surrealistic indictment of middle-class American mores. Wil...

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 games...

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...