Six years ago, the world lost baseball coach John Altobelli, his wife Keri, and their daughter Alyssa; NBA legend Kobe Bryant ...
Events to mark the 250th anniversary of the US' founding, live performances by Grammy-nominated musicians. Plus, film showings 'Occupied City,' 'The Next Dream,' and 'Gladiators.' ...
George Saunders's place among the best living American writers is secure. And while Saunders is not often included in ...
The author’s work makes an excellent case that literature can explore virtue—even if his latest novel reveals its pitfalls.
In Saunders' 'Vigil,' a supernatural guide who comforts dying souls struggles with an unapologetic oil tycoon refusing to acknowledge his role in climate destruction.
This doesn’t matter much to our narrator, Jill “Doll” Blaine, who has so far comforted 342 dying souls, each equally “a person who had not willed himself into this world and was now being taken out of ...
George R.R. Martin's beautifully bingeable supernatural Western, Dark Winds, is streaming's newest sleeper hit. Here's what ...
Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn are up for the former; Elle Fanning and Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas for the latter.
NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with author George Saunders on his latest novel Vigil, and why he finds himself revisiting death in his work.
NPR's Scott Simon asks director Gus Van Sant about his new movie, "Dead Man's Wire," based on a true story of a 1977 kidnapping.
From 'Drugstore Cowboy' to 'Psycho,' Moviefone counts down every film of director Gus Van Sant's extremely impressive and ...