James Thurber

As president-elect, Barack Obama proclaimed his Kennebunkport was Chicago's South Side and said he'd try to get back every six to eight weeks. Instead he's unwound on ocean-splashed Oahu or Martha's Vineyard and has made it back to Chicago seven times,...

WASHINGTON — Does President Barack Obama's appointment of William Daley as his new chief of staff keep the White House perilously top-heavy with Chicagoans? Grover Norquist, the president of Americans for Tax Reform, thinks so. "If everybody...

Despite what you may have heard, the "house museum" is not dead in Baltimore City. The H.L. Mencken House (officially closed since 1997 by the bankruptcy of the City Life Museums) has had more than 100 visitors during two recent weekends. The Johns...

You know the feeling. You're looking at the best-seller list and a title catches your eye. "What?!" you sputter. "That piece of (expletive deleted) is a hit, while (insert title of favorite obscure novel) is a flop? Ah, the injustice!" Life is not fair....

A look back at John Lennon's writing, on the anniversary of his death....

Keith Olbermann's exit from MSNBC appeared abrupt to viewers of his show, but the talk-show host and his network were involved "in a relationship that's been failing for a long time," an NBC Universal executive said Saturday. Olbermann's announcement...

NEW YORK -- Keith Olbermann, MSNBC's most successful and controversial personality for his outspoken liberal prime-time program, gave an abrupt goodbye to viewers and said Friday was his last show. It was not immediately known if he quit or was fired....

The news that Ben Stiller will not just star in the remake (or new version) of James Thurber's classic short story “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” is accompanied by this update. The script is by the fellow who wrote “The Weatherman&#...

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When it was written, and even when it was first filmed, with Danny Kaye in the title role, the idea of a grown man escaping his humdrum life in adventurous and childish flights of fantasy was novel. That was then. But really, is James Thurber's “The...

The adorably hand-animated “My Dog Tulip” is based on a fictionalized memoir by the English writer J. R. Ackerley. Opening Friday at the Enzian, the film features Christopher Plummer plummily narrating the story of how Ackerley, seeking that...