When Abel Debritto first started researching and writing about Charles Bukowski, he knew that the prolific underground poet, short story writer and novelist, who had written thousands of poems in his ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Charles Bukowski – the “laureate of American lowlife” – remains a divisive figure more than 20 years after his death. His belligerent ...

Bukowski’s chatty free verse (and fiction) about disappointment, drunkenness, racetracks, flophouses, lust, sexual failure, poverty and late-life success amassed an enormous following by the time of ...

When Charles Bukowski died in San Pedro 20 years ago, the obituaries in the next day’s papers typically began with some iteration of Time magazine’s stock description of the writer as the “laureate of ...

When Charles Bukowski died at 73, he left behind more than 45 volumes of poetry and prose, an oeuvre that to this day makes up the most entertaining affront ever delivered to modern letters. The books ...

Indonesian singer-songwriter Pamungkas has quietly released a new version of his single ‘Birdy’ after accusations emerged on social media that he had borrowed its lyrics heavily from Charles ...