His sister is backing her for her own reasons. See them occasionally so that the children can have a relationship with their grandmother. But don’t let her come between you. You and your husband need to present a united front. A love like ours Gillie...

Photoplays) or Robert Coover’s The Origin of the Brunists or Naked Lunch or even Portnoy’s Complaint — but gee, if I could! Just one of the not-so-simple Dr. Suess classics, W.R. Burnett’s iconic Little Ceasar or James Cain’s Double Idemnity (the...

I’m left with mixed feelings. I admire Ward Just, though his fiction mostly sticks to legislators and journalists; Edward P. Jones has written brilliant stories set in the District, so brilliant I keep wishing he’d write a District-set novel to match...

Lynch will interview Amy Poehler as part of the Live Talks Los Angeles discussion series, TheWrap has exclusively learned. Former ABC News President David Westin -- as well as authors Christopher Buckley, Scott Turow and John Irving -- are also on the...

Breathtakingly brilliant and impossibly hilarious stuff. Arthur Strauss, September 1, 2011 (view all comments by Arthur Strauss) Joseph Heller's classic anti-war novel stands the test of time. This re-issue is complemented by Christopher Buckley's...

First, note that this essay contains spoilers Late in Jason Reitman's most recent film, "Young Adult," the principal character, Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron), shows up at the house of a man she knew 20 years ago in high school, Matt Freehauf (Patton...

Warren ("Lullaby of Broadway," "Chattanooga Choo Choo") in 1893; industrialist, moviemaker and aviator Howard Hughes in 1905; investigative journalist I.F. Stone in 1907; actor Ava Gardner in 1922; U.S. Army Gen. George Patton in 1923; author/director...

I reckon that more well-wishers must have visited him during his last days at the Houston cancer centre than were in the GPO on that fateful Easter morning in 1916.Certainly all his admirers and acquaintances wanted to get in on the act at news of his passing,...

About the Author Victor Navasky Victor Navasky, publisher emeritus of The Nation, was the magazine's editor from 1978 to 1995 and publisher and... That being the case, and discounting the fact that some of the appreciations were reflexive obituary...

The state-controlled carrier is adding routes and planes, and placed an order in March for 13 Airbus SAS planes. It has an option to buy another 10 for 2013 delivery. The Toulouse-based manufacturer has also held talks with low- cost Turkish carriers...

Reading those chapters, I came to view him in a fundamentally different way, as a friend I never met. Also read: Christopher Buckley, Terry Glavin, George Szirtes, Max Dunbar, Marc Tracy. Previously: “Hitchens, with poppy and rumpled hat” (November...

I talked to George Pelecanos and Larry Doyle. Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida stood in the far corner of an adjacent room. Hitchens and his wife Carol Blue were behind me, talking to Christopher Buckley, who leaned against the grand piano. Azar Nafisi was...

Once you accept that’s how Marsh is writing, it’s easier to enjoy. Though that style does have its problems, notably her need to beat the reader to the punch each time, or even to their own reaction. When Christopher Buckley described Sally Quinn’s...

His supporters praised Mr. Hitchens as a truth-telling literary master who, in the words of the Village Voice, was "America's foremost rhetorical pugilist." Writer Christopher Buckley has called him "the greatest living essayist in the English language."

His supporters praised Hitchens as a truth-telling literary master who, in the words of the Village Voice, was "America's foremost rhetorical pugilist." Writer Christopher Buckley has called him "the greatest living essayist in the English language." ...

Writer Christopher Buckley has called him "the greatest living essayist in the English language." Christopher Hitchens, a sharp-witted provocateur who used his formidable learning, biting wit and muscular prose style to skewer what he considered...

Much has already been written about Christopher Hitchens, the brilliant and prolific writer, commentator, and polemicist since the very sad news of his death yesterday. The beautifully written tributes to him by his friends Graydon Carter, the editor of

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He had been battling the cancer for 18 months. HITCHENS DEAD AT 62 "He was a man of insatiable appetites -- for cigarettes, for scotch, for company, for great writing, and, above all, for conversation," wrote Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair,...