Begging, scamming and threatening: they’re all tools of the writer’s trade in Pamela Hansford Johnson’s dark comedy.

It was a banner year for essay collections — names like Roxane Gay, Lena Dunham, and Leslie Jamison come to mind without hesitation — and Meghan Daum's The Unspeakable (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) rounds ...

Oscar Wilde once described the English country gentleman galloping after a fox as “the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.” But the centuries-old practice of hunting foxes and other animals ...

Movies that deal with incest are often couched in melodrama, dealing with hidden transgressions and shattered family roles. But The Unspeakable Act, which makes its Chicago premiere this week at Gene ...

A group of people inspired by a book on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are creating theater around the idea that his death could have been part of a conspiracy. And the questions don't ...

Not sure about the UK, but over here in North America, TVs were inundated with iPad commercials featuring the now famous piano-disco riff from Chilly Gonzales’ ‘Never Stop’. Gonzales is a Canadian ...

My training analyst, Dr. Henry Krystal, who had survived five Nazi death camps, would often tell me in my training sessions, “Sometimes a good forgettery is better than a good memory.” We may live ...

Although television acts as a fictitious escape for many, it also has the imperative power to preserve real stories — especially the controversial ones that tend to get brushed aside. Unspeakable is a ...