A Northwestern basketball walk-on has fans excited

The former Butcher of Broadway submitted to one of the site’s AMAs

Detentions would begin on October 15

Hungarian government accuses Claims Conference of malfeasance

Plus a top Iranian scientist may be resuming nuclear weapons research

Danilo Kiš’s fiction, newly translated, mined the Shoah with a Borgesian sense of mystery

Can the women’s antiwar group, active in the anti-Israel BDS effort, turn people against drone warfare?

Free Men, a film about Muslim members of the French Resistance in World War II, evokes recent surveillance activity by the New York Police Department

Michael Chabon may finally score a hit as a screenwriter for Disney’s new sci-fi flick John Carter. But will success in Hollywood ruin his fiction?

How Jonathan Ames’ HBO series failed to advance the conversation

The Chilean novelist Roberto Bolaño’s The Third Reich is, like much of his fiction, filled with Nazis, the ultimate evil

The documentary Paul Goodman Changed My Life profiles the forgotten, prolific, and bisexual New York Intellectual who inspired the 1960s New Left

Fact versus fiction (versus other people’s facts)

Goldberg brings her page act to the stage

At the newly trendy Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where half of the graves belong to Jews, a long history of criminal association lives on