D.H. Lawrence

LONDON—There was a time in Colin Firth's youth when he regarded the music of ABBA with the same disdain he saved for, say, a Jane Austen novel. Austen? "Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole," he said. "It seemed girl stuff." And ABBA, the...

A writer's ideas are his legacy. After he dies, it's up to executors, heirs, lawyers, agents and colleagues to keep them alive -- and perhaps especially up to us, the readers, to thread those ideas through the weave of history, the passage of time, our...

It can't be easy being Jodie Foster. I mean, how many scripts could have been floating about in which an agile, whip-smart career woman in her mid-40s conveniently loses her husband or fiance in the first 10 minutes, if not before the movie starts, so...

"Walking San Francisco," Wilderness Press, $17.95; ISBN: 978-0-89997-419-4 San Francisco is one of the world's great walking towns. Every part of the city is covered in this guide from the most tourist-saturated to neighborhoods that visitors usually...

Even though the directors union has reached a deal with Hollywood studios and the writers guild is expected to follow, the impact of the strike is still being felt. This Sunday, ABC's "Desperate Housewives" will again be replaced by the reality home...

By Richard Rayner "He had the build of a plunging halfback, with big shoulders and a neck like the stump of a Douglas fir," wrote Malcolm Cowley, who taught Ken Kesey in a writing class at Stanford in 1960. "Chapters of a novel were read aloud in a...

By Richard Rayner "A good writer can make you believe time stands still. Yet the end of all stories, even if the writer forbears to mention it, is death," wrote the English writer Angela Carter, who died 16 years ago this month. At the time Carter was...

(C) Jodie Foster, who earned an Oscar nomination 32 years ago for playing a child prostitute in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, plays a more cultured character in The Brave One, an illegitimate heir to that incendiary mid-1970s masterpiece. Here she's a...

Whatever prejudices you may harbor about "Lady Chatterley's Lover" from either the book, the sundry film versions or its colorful legacy as porn lit for the high of brow, they gently smash to bits when Marina Hands steps onto the screen. As Constance...

Six years into its existence, the Tribeca Film Festival has gone from being a vehicle for a neighborhood's psychic and economic recovery from 9/11 to an irradiated spring fling so vast in scope that it's spread out far enough from lower Manhattan to...

Along the Amalfi Coast, dramatic panoramas of rocky cliffs hanging over the sea are everywhere. But the views from the town of Ravello - perched above the gulf of Salerno - seem like a shortcut to paradise. Getting to Ravello, which has a rich history...

MINUTES from the shores of Lake Huron in western Ontario, three towns form an isosceles triangle, bounded by no more than 50 kilometers, that Alice Munro's readers may know well. Wingham (pop. 2,885) is where the author was born in 1931. Clinton (pop. 3,...