Simon was one year old, playing in the dining room, getting under his mother's stilettos. He was unusually thoughtful. His brothers at this age pounded the toy blocks on the glass coffee table and ...

Today the MacArthur Foundation announced its list of “geniuses” in the arts and sciences who will receive a no-strings grant of $500,000 each to pursue their work. Among them, David Simon, creator of ...

Paul Simon’s remarkable career, from poetic troubadour to architect of merging pop melodies with world beat, is ripe for mining. But documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney didn’t want to reduce Simon’s ...

If you’re among those bent and exhausted by the pervasive critical postulation that The Wire and Treme creator David Simon is a genius—willows weep, because they just made it official. Simon is among ...