For much of the world, he had us at “Jerry Maguire,” or his “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” script, or “…Say Anything.” But ...

He wrote with the kind of clarity that was as comforting as it was chastising. Here’s where to start. Credit...Jean-Regis Rouston/Roger Viollet, via Getty Images Supported by By Robert Jones Jr.

In 1950, James Baldwin and his lover, the painter Lucien Happersberger, set out from Paris for the mountains of Switzerland, where Baldwin, then around 25, hoped to climb his way out of a creative ...

There is some seriously stellar dialogue in John Carpenter's movies, both action and horror. Much of it uttered by Kurt ...