Beats connection: Allen Ginsberg’s inner circle – in pictures
A new exhibition of the Howl author’s intimate personal photographs finds him hanging out with Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs and Patti Smith
September 2022
Sterling Lord, agent who championed Jack Kerouac and more, dies at 102
Tennis-playing publishing force also represented Ken Kesey, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Amiri Baraka
June 2022
Top 10s
Top 10 stories of male friendship
Brigid Delaney's diary
I was longing for beatnik freedom – so I took an overnight bus to Yamba
Brigid Delaney
April 2022
The books of my life
Hanif Kureishi: ‘Racism makes people mad – it’s necessary to deal with this in fiction’
The writer on Freudian dreams, Tom Sawyer, and what ER Braithwaite taught him about race
March 2022
Cultural prescription
Get off the sofa: music, art and more to summon motivation
From noisy young punks to a tiny word on a ceiling, our critics recommend popular culture to light a fire underneath you
Jack Kerouac: still roadworthy after 100 years
The author of On the Road had a messy, contradictory life. Yet he’s as relevant as ever – and not just for obsessed young men
The road well travelled: 100 years of Jack Kerouac
Nature-loving mystic or proto-dudebro? Untameable free spirit or reclusive mama’s boy? On the centenary of his birth, it is time to look past the icon at the ‘bleeding ball of contradictions’ behind it
December 2021
From road trip to catwalk: Jack Kerouac classic inspires Dior collection
Kim Jones, winner of Fashion Awards designer of the year, draws on Beat novel On the Road for his first show in London since 2003
November 2021
The books of my life
Elif Shafak: ‘Reading Orlando was like plunging into a cold but beautifully blue sea’
The novelist on her love of Virginia Woolf, being inspired by HG Wells and how Jack Kerouac’s ego puts her off his books
July 2021
Michael Horovitz obituary
Iconoclastic poet, editor and leading light of British counterculture during the 1950s and 60s
June 2021
On the Road to Bridget Jones: five books that define each generation
The beat went on: what happened to Jan Kerouac, Jack’s forgotten daughter
February 2021
Lawrence Ferlinghetti obituary
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet and founder of City Lights bookshop, dies aged 101
January 2019
Peter Greenaway plans racetrack in tribute to Jack Kerouac book
Film director working on vast art installation inspired by cult classic On the Road
September 2018
Out of my mind: Sarah Perry on writing under the influence of drugs
Jack Kerouac letter to mother recounts ‘On the Road’ adventures
July 2018
Nightcrawling with Kerouac, Ginsberg and the beatniks – in pictures
A new book of photographs by Burt Glinn – featuring a recently discovered essay by Jack Kerouac – captures the beat generation in all their jazz-heavy, late-night glory
May 2018
Jarvis Cocker: how Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool‑Aid Acid Test changed my life
At the dawn of the 1960s, Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters were dropping LSD and kickstarting a revolution – and Wolfe went along for the ride, capturing the birth of the counterculture
