In 1985, when I was in the midst of a 12-year struggle to write my first novel, I had the good fortune to be invited to the Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony in Austerlitz, N.Y., for a monthlong ...

In 1985, when I was in the midst of a 12-year struggle to write my first novel, I had the good fortune to be invited to the Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony in Austerlitz, N.Y., for a monthlong ...

My compulsion to judge other people wanes with age. The older I get, the less I wag my finger. I don’t delude myself into thinking I’m wiser or better. I don’t assume I’d necessarily make ...

In a desperate cash grab, they’ve chosen a film that appeals to our basest instincts, rather than one that might help us put them behind us.

While zombies are culture’s way of facing our basest and most primitive instincts, evil geniuses probe the same baseness combined with man’s proudest attribute, intellect. Like the zombie, he’s driven ...

Instead of protesting, they preferred to protect their political fortunes, play to the basest part of their base and remain meekly mute. They lack spine. Trump took them all.

They are just human, after all, susceptible to all the basest instincts of human nature. Mass marketing, assisted by social media, shows us how pervasively the gun industry turns gun purchasers ...

Donald Trump and his government appointees are appealing to the basest fears and anxieties of our citizens for political gain. Donald Trump should feel ashamed. We are better than this.

The nine Africans proved to be one of the most popular attractions at the fair, where the crowds gawked, jeered and at one point threw mud pies at the human exhibit. From St. Louis, the group ...