Boris Kachka

Chekhov Czar: Denis O’Hare

Onscreen, Denis O’Hare has been making a journeyman’s living in steadily growing character roles (Milk, Changeling). Onstage, the gregarious Tony winner (for Take Me Out) has been weaning himself off Broadway, venturing into increasingly dark territory.

The 69 Greatest Fiction Travel Books of All Time

First things first, you may be thinking: What is a fiction travel book, anyway? Well, here's what we think: It's a book in which a place is as important a character as the protagonist; it's a book so informed by the writer's culture that it's impossible to read it without uncovering the life of the author behind it...

How the West Was Lost

Sam Shepard takes on cowboy poseurs—and his own iconhood.