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Peat is willing to implement fresh ideas with the Warriors.

Caleb Carr, the scarred and gifted son of founding Beat Lucien Carr who endured a traumatizing childhood and became a bestselling novelist, accomplished military historian and late-life memoirist of his devoted cat Masha, has died

It’s one of those circle of life kind of things, the antagonist Hopper says in Pixar’s A Bug’s Life, explaining how his gang of marauding grasshoppers exploit the ants with a dry cynicism that Luke Carman might appreciate. It wasn’t until I reached the final story in Carman’s collection An…

When Jack Kerouac went On the Road he chose a gas-guzzling 5-litre Hudson. Hunter S Thompson’s ‘Red Shark’ Chevrolet in ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’ sported a thirsty 6-litre V8, just like Thelma and Louise’s emission-belching Ford Thunderbird.

Announce to your friends and family that you’re choosing to live in your vehicle and you’re likely to raise some concern.

The author of On the Road had a messy, contradictory life. Yet he’s as relevant as ever – and not just for obsessed young men

A century after the ‘On The Road’ author’s birth, Kerouac’s close friend and collaborator David Amram talks to Kevin E G Perry about their ‘stoned-out’ parties, his misunderstood Catholic faith and his work’s enduring relevance

Nature-loving mystic or proto-dudebro? Untameable free spirit or reclusive mama’s boy? On the centenary of his birth, it is time to look past the icon at the ‘bleeding ball of contradictions’ behind it

The Man Who Pays His Way: ‘One of the biggest troubles hitchhiking is having to talk to innumerable people,’ complains the author of ‘On The Road’