“Queer,” a new Luca Guadagnino romance so wounding and hypnotic in only the way he can do, ends the way it begins: with William Lee (Daniel Craig) alone again after another fascinating, devastating ...

The role William S. Burroughs played in shaping literature is well known. But his influence on rock and roll hasn't been as well-documented. Casey Rae's William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' ...

And that’s just the beginning. To say that Burroughs lived his life on the edge is an absolute understatement: He consistently stoked the flames of his own personal hell. Burroughs in Paris, 1964.

Peter Schjeldahl is the magazine's art critic, but this week he takes on a literary subject: William S. Burroughs. A new biography of Burroughs was recently published, and next month is the centenary ...

“William S. Burroughs and The Cult of Rock ‘N’ Roll” by Casey Rae. University of Texas Press. It needs to be said that Burroughs had no prevailing interest in rock music aesthetically. He understood ...

For a guy who always looked cadaverous, William S. Burroughs has been overripe for the kind of substantive, stylistically simpatico docu treatment he gets from helmer Yony Leyser, whose “William S.

And with the death in 1986 of Brion Gysin, his friend and collaborator in Cut-Ups, films, arcana and performance art, Burroughs became a painter, exchanging brushes for firearms, and hung his first ...

Jonathan “Yony” Leyser’s brief career has been all about celebrating outsiders, in sordid but sympathetic portraits of transgender and anarchist communes, addicts and migrant workers. Now the ...

The role William S. Burroughs played in shaping literature is well known. But his influence on rock and roll hasn't been as well-documented. Casey Rae's William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' ...

William Harrell Burroughs died Dec. 3, 2005, at South Lake Tahoe after a long fight with prostate cancer. He was 71. Bill was born Sept. 13, 1934, in Burbank, Calif., to Lucille and William W.