American literature

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was buried next to Marilyn Monroe at a private Los Angeles ceremony attended by his widow Crystal and his four children, DARIK said.

Artist Tassos Mantzavinos delves into the world of horror with "Edgar Allen Poe's Raven," an exhibition of drawings, engravings and colored inks inspired by the American writer's seminal work and organized by the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation (MIET).

Balancing between theater and film, Syllas Tzoumerkas and Youla Boudali perform "High and Low - A Murderer in Tokyo" at the Onassis Cultural Center (Stegi) in a series of shows from December 25 to 30. The play is inspired by Ed McBain's novel "King's Ransom" and Akira Kurosawa's movie "High and Low," which was based on the book.

Dr. Steve Pieczenik is a former US Department of State official who served in the Nixon administration. Pieczenik, who is considered an expert on matters of US and global intelligence, is held in high esteem in the circles of the US intelligence community. He is also a psychiatrist, an author and publisher.

Harper Lee, who wrote one of America's most enduring literary classics, "To Kill a Mockingbird," about a child's view of right and wrong and waited 55 years to publish a second book with the same characters from a very different point of view, has died at the age of 89.

An 11-part documentary series produced by the jailed editor-in-chief of daily Cumhuriyet Can Dündar with veteran journalists Nebil Özgentürk and Co?kun Aral is set to appear soon, telling the stories of Turkey's multiple cultures and identities.

Erospolis delights in the defiance of artists, writers, jurists and other intellectuals, particularly if it involves a flash of skin and demands an end to the state of emergency ... in ParisThe weather is freezing but who cares?

Istanbul has always been a rich source of inspiration and a new book (reviewed in HDN here) gives a taste of writing about the city by classic names including Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

Verses from "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's long poem of the late 18th century, divide director and writer Tolga Karaçelik's sophomore feature "Sarma??k" (Ivy) into three parts: Three distinctive and definitive parts charting a man's journey from possibilities of adventure to delirium.

The second annual festival staged by the WARM Foundation, an organisation started by war reporters aimed at "telling the story with excellence and integrity", runs until Saturday in the Bosnian capital with a programme of films, exhibitions and debates about recent conflicts.