His collection of short stories concerned with looming endings is a reminder of the writer's best and worst tendencies ...

Patti Smith’s Just Kids was voted a best book of the 21st century. Her new memoir covers her whole life, charting deep love, ...

The Godmother of Punk shares details about her personal life and her work more intimately than she did in ‘Just Kids’ and ‘M Train.’ ...

Susan Smith was sentenced to life in prison after killing her two sons in 1994. Here's everything to know about her life in ...

This article appears in the December 2025 print edition with the headline “Patti Smith’s Lifetime of Reinvention.” ...

Gazing in that mirror, he committed to art in an instant, and just as swiftly all else was stripped away: his scholarship, ...

Sure, Tom Turkey looms large this month, but other highlights include a magic show with Muppets, Patti Smith and “Horses,” and wrestling drag queens. By Erik Piepenburg My man Santa is among the ...

Patti Smith, the celebrated rock poet who won a National Book Award for ‘Just Kids,’ revisits her hard-scrabble childhood, ...

The singer-songwriter wisely builds her memoir around her creative 1970s in New York — but other periods get weighed down in ...

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

Break It Up’ is a brilliant, classic rock ‘n’ roll song, taking Jim Morrison’s tragedy and reimagining it through the lens of ...

I love live music. I never tire of going to concerts. I must have seen thousands of bands and singers performing in ...