It was last call at the bar up the street from my shitty apartment, and I had just decided to quit smoking cigarettes. “Quit kidding yourself, man,” Paul said, shaping the cherry of his non-filtered ...

We all experience several significant events in our lives. For me, a significant event is something that changes your behavior. If we’re fortunate, we recognize the event as a positive influence in ...

Kevin Rafferty's The Last Cigarette—a companion piece of sorts to his similarly structured clip-fests Feed and The Atomic Cafe, as well as Ron Mann's facile but entertaining pot documentary ...

What will survive of us is love, Philip Larkin said, and this skilful plundering of the last autobiographical volumes of Simon Gray, by the author himself (before he died in 2008) and his friend Hugh ...