“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 ...

More than two decades ago, freelance writer Gregory Daurer thought it would be cool to track down William S. Burroughs at Naropa and hook him up to a brain machine. Audio excerpts of Daurer’s ...

There he is. Right next to Marilyn Monroe. Placed almost dead center among the wax figures and cardboard cut outs populating the cover of the classic 1967 album by The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely ...

Daniel Craig stars in Luca Guadagnino’s atmospheric period piece based on a William S. Burroughs novella. Credit: Yannis Drakoulidis | Courtesy of A24. In 1950 Mexico City, middle-aged William Lee ...

Long before it was popular for New Age norteamericanos to visit the Andes Mountains seeking psychedelic enlightenment from ayahuasca, the Beat novelist William Burroughs made the trek. But he took the ...

Imagine going to a gig where The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards couldn’t make it, so Patti Smith stepped up to break the news, read you a poem, offered you your money back from her own pocket, and ...

Gray Harrison is a journalist, critic, and creative writer based in Seattle. She has a Master’s degree in Cultural Reporting and Criticism from NYU. While pursuing an arts journalism career, Gray ...

Lost Watches is a take on that kind of experience, but it mirrors the expectations that society has of all of us, or that we think it does, as the madnesses that we all seek refuge in, to comfort and ...

Director Howard Brookner defines Burroughs’s fiction by its autobiographical elements and elliptical prose style, and establishes Burroughs’s slippery character through his interview subjects’ ...

William Burroughs was born 95 years ago today. King Junk, as Dennis Cooper once called him. Kerouac’s Old Bull Lee, Van Sant’s junkie priest, cyberpunk godfather, punk ancestor, and benevolent spirit ...