The author Kurt Vonnegut's estate has sued to challenge a Utah law that allows school districts to ban books from their libraries. Supporters of the law say it keeps pornography out of schools.

Last week in Zauchensee, Austria, the old gal—competing against twenty-somethings—won her second Downhill of the season, and ...

In books such as "Slaughterhouse-Five," "Cat's Cradle," and "Hocus Pocus," Kurt Vonnegut mixed the bitter and funny with a touch of the profound. Vonnegut, regarded by many critics as a key influence ...

Earlier this month, the ACLU of Utah and two law firms filed Vonnegut v. Utah in the U.S. District Court for the District of ...

Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), interviewed on September 23, 1991 by Richard Wolinsky and Richard A. Lupoff while on tour for his ...

Kurt Vonnegut didn’t deliver the famous “Wear Sunscreen” graduation speech published in the Chicago Tribune that was often mistakenly attributed to the celebrated author. But he could have. Over his ...

The Writer’s Crusade: Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse Five, by Tom Roston (Abrams Press, 2021), 261 pages. With the prescience of a quatrain by Nostradamus, the novel imagined a ...

Very few so-called science fiction authors of the 20th century were as prolific as Kurt Vonnegut, and almost none had the same sort of mainstream political and intellectual impact. But as a social ...

On January 30, 2000, Kurt Vonnegut was sitting in the study of his Manhattan brownstone, watching the Super Bowl. During the first quarter, he put out his cigarette and went downstairs to get some ...

At 54, Northampton artist Nanny Vonnegut has had many roles in her life. She is the daughter of the late satirical novelist Kurt Vonnegut and his first wife, the late Jane Vonnegut, who was also a ...

The proper length for an obituary for Kurt Vonnegut is three words: “So it goes.” This one will do what Vonnegut never did, which is go on too long. “So it goes” is a phrase from Vonnegut’s novel ...

Kurt Vonnegut was disappointed in America. "I'm sorry that America isn't a greater success than it is," he told me in 1991. "Because we're so wealthy and we really could have done almost anything. And ...