Among the authors of these excerpts are such writers as Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Saul Bellow, Oscar Hijuelos, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, and William Faulkner. The main thrust of ...

Odds are that when someone mentions John Wayne, they're either thinking about western movies or some old war film. The actor John Wayne never served in the U.S. military, but the classic "John ...

Former White House chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, has said that President Trump “is the most flawed person” he’s ever known, CNN reported. “The depths of his dishonesty is ...

P. (Honor Code–Hollywood Story, by Wild Rush) has been retired following a fourth-place finish in the GI Kentucky Derby during which he suffered an injury, according to trainer John Shirreffs.

The Lennons had purchased the property the previous autumn, and John had been eager to spend more time there. With his personal assistant and driver Fred Seaman in tow, Lennon enjoyed riding along ...

That, of course, was the day 56 years ago when Lee Harvey Oswald murdered President John F. Kennedy as his motorcade ... Reserve and became an officer on a P.T. (patrol torpedo) boat.

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook For those who love John Updike’s classic short story “A&P,” Jonathan Evison’s latest young adult ...

The New Yorker Radio Hour Louisa Thomas on a Ballplayer’s Epic Final Game The sports correspondent on John Updike’s “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu”—his account of Ted Williams’s last game ...

John Updike, Paris Review (1966 ... scroll and addressed to George Hoyer (Hoyer was Updike’s middle name) at a P.O. box in Georgetown (George in Georgetown, get it?). Here too were his L.L ...