One scholar who transmitted Blake’s kabbalah, S. Foster Damon, can remember his sudden vision of tiny flowers carpeting Harvard Yard violet before World War One, an image that lingers over 60 years in ...

Michael S. Roth is president of the California College of the Arts in the Bay Area. “TURN on, tune in, drop out.” With these words, Timothy Leary confirmed his place in the hall of fame of snake-oil ...

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Faith No More’s Roddy Bottum offers a vivid, poetic depiction of the strange, exhilarating, drug-fueled world of San Francisco in the early Eighties in a new excerpt from his upcoming memoir, The ...

Susannah Cahalan traces the life of Rosemary Woodruff Leary, who made her husband’s coffee, tripped with him and helped break him out of jail. By Cree LeFavour An Aquarian Age savant, he was a founder ...

One hundred miles north of Manhattan in the heart of the Hudson Valley lies the grand Hitchcock Estate, a property currently listed for a record-breaking $65 million. The Hitchcock Estate’s 2,000 ...