At age 16, J. Hoberman was old enough to crash the gates when Beatlemania overtook Shea Stadium on August 15, 1965—but, as ...

“William doesn’t dig. He Burroughs.” This was how Kurt Cobain described the work of one of his literary heroes, William S. Burroughs. First exposed to Burroughs’ work in high school, it ...

The newly discovered portfolio of Mapplethorpe photographs on a table during a private showing at Giorno Poetry Systems in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Photo by Lisa Freeman In a radical ...

Neal’s wife Carolyn wrote one called “Off the Road,” which offers a woman’s perspective on a largely male cultural movement — and which is often not flattering to Cassady or Kerouac.

Alongside Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs was one of the principal figures associated with the Beat movement of the 1950s and 60s.

William S. Burroughs' collaborations with painter and sculptor David Bradshaw are the subject of “Propagation” at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Florida SouthWestern State College. The exhibition ...

The dark side of William Burroughs, wife killer behind Daniel Craig’s Queer The renowned author murdered his wife before going on to become one of America’s most influential figures in literature.

Bad Trip The Romanticized Squalor of Queer Luca Guadagnino makes William S. Burroughs’s novella a love story that is sordid, pathetic, affecting, and true. Yannis Drakoulidis/Courtesy of A24 ...

Timur stars in David T. Little's goth opera, "Black Lounge," a CAP UCLA presentation that weirdly connects the composer with David Lynch, Antonin Artaud and William S. Burroughs.

During the opening titles of Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, the camera wanders over an old-fashioned mattress, striped in pale blue, with buttons holding its tufts of stuffing in place. On it is strewn a ...

The late American novelist William S. Burroughs is back in the news ahead of Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, a film based on his 1985 short novel. But what do we know about Burroughs? Here are some key facts ...