Dorothea Tanning obituary
Painter, sculptor and poet with a vivid, dreamlike styleThe American artist Dorothea Tanning, who has died aged 101, was a talented painter whose reputation was confounded by her long marriage to the great surrealist Max Ernst. He figures prominently i...
Sex fixer to the stars lifts lid on scandal in Hollywood’s golden age
Scotty Bowers has kept quiet for 60 years but now, at 88, he's talking about bedding the biggest screen icons of the daySpencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn had just one thing in common – apart from being movie superstars.But that one thing wasn't the...
Whitewashing Black History Month | Gary Younge
Arizona's suppression of Mexican American studies fits a pattern of making history serve an exclusionary nationalist mythologyNot long after I arrived in the US, in 2003, some white Americans would challenge me over my opposition to the Iraq war, refer...
Whoopensocker dictionary of American dialect completed after 50 years
Collecting regional English from across the US, final volume of 60,000-entry dictionary will be published next monthFrom whoopensocker to upscuddle, strubbly to swivet, 50 years after it was first conceived the Dictionary of American Regional English i...
Theodore Enslin 1925-2011
Avant-garde American poet whose lines were inspired by musical compositionAs he made his debut in the literary magazine Origin, edited by Cid Corman, Theodore Enslin, who has died aged 86, was often associated with the Black Mountain school of poetry. ...
Kim Dotcom’s brash jetset image ‘hid sharp business mind’
File-sharing millionaire refused bail in New Zealand could motivate others into doing what he wanted, claim associatesHe lived a life dominated by fast cars, holidays on $10m super-yachts and an obsession with shoot 'em up computer games. But on Wednes...
Megaupload investigation: Kim Dotcom denied bail
File-sharing multimillionaire faces four more weeks in jail in New Zealand after judge warns he could try to flee to GermanyThe file-sharing multimillionaire, Kim Dotcom, is facing a further four weeks in custody after a judge in in New Zealand denied ...
The Birds of America by John James Audubon – in pictures
On Friday, this masterpiece of ornithological illustration is up for auction – and it's predicted to be the most expensive book ever
The Road author Cormac McCarthy turns in first original screenplay
Novelist's 'spec' feature-film script deals with a lawyer who becomes embroiled in drug trade in south-west USHis novels have been adapted into critically acclaimed films such as the Coen brothers' No Country For Old Men and John Hillcoat's The Road, b...
Jefferson’s revolutionary Bible reissued
Former US president took a razor to parts of the Gospels he did not agree with to compile his own versionHe was one of the men who laid the foundations for God's own country, but Thomas Jefferson had his own revolutionary ideas about the Bible.The thir...
By defunding Planned Parenthood, the Susan G Komen Foundation betrays women | Lizz Winstead