Sam Shepard returns to the American West in his third collection of fiction, leaving stories like place markers on his steady journey across the map. In 133 short tales, dialogues and vignettes, he ...

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The New Group production of Sam Shepard’s classic tragicomedy comes off as disjointed and self-consciously stagy. By Maya Phillips Héctor Tobar is a son of Los Angeles, a city of “perpetual cultural ...

Two new books take up that most durable of American subjects -- the uneasy space between what we imagine ourselves to be and what the record shows. In "Coyote: The Dramatic Lives of Sam Shepard," ...

NEW YORK — Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in the American ...

Héctor Tobar is a son of Los Angeles, a city of “perpetual cultural mixing.” Here, he guides readers through the books and writers that cut through the city’s layers. By Héctor Tobar “True West” is a ...