Claude Pélieu fought in Algeria and had a key role in bringing the works of Burroughs and others to the world, writes Marjorie Brennan.

A British teenager is reported to have died in South America after taking hallucinogenic drugs during a tribal ritual.

Don’t get too paranoid about becoming the butt of jokes on April 1— you’re in good company, says Caroline Delaney

Daniel Radcliffe has really left Harry Potter behind with a startling and explicit Sundance Film Festival role as poet Allen Ginsberg.