Here is a lean, incisive biographical-critical book by one of our outstanding literary commentators. In compelling personal writing, White (Genet: A Biography) shows how one of the heroes of French ...

Stéphane Mallarmé caught a glimpse of Arthur Rimbaud on only one occasion and it was the younger poet’s hands that stuck in his memory. These were, he later wrote, “vast hands, red with sores,” which ...

While countless artists consider Rimbaud among their primary inspirations, the poet’s influence on New York’s legendary downtown scene was captured on celluloid in experimental filmmaker Jack Smith’s ...