Didion & Babitz” dodges bringing its subjects to its forefront in favor of second-hand gossip and questionable journalistic ...

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A new book by the British cultural journalist Dorian Lynskey chronicles our centuries-old obsession with doomsday scenarios.

The U.S. Department of Education, under President Donald Trump, described recent public school book bans in places like Central York as hoaxes.

Catherine Tsalikis was checking Amazon to see how the launch was going for her new biography of Chrystia Freeland. She ...

“How can you not believe in God after Auschwitz?” A rabbi put this question to Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor, ...

The Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM) today launched the biography of its Senior Fellow, the late Academician Prof Emeritus ...

Biographical writing constitutes a category of literary engagements that are explored in academia because they are helpful in revealing the network of events that make up the human world. As a genre ...

Ruth Leavitt Fallon, an artist who explored computers as a form of self expression more than 50 years ago, died Jan. 16 at ...

President John F. Kennedy’s shocking assassination stopped the world on November 22, 1963. A botched investigation continues ...

The late art dealer Joseph Duveen not only cultivated a clientele of the world’s most powerful people, but had a lasting impact on the way Americans buy and view art.

The writer, Viscount James Bryce, an English aristocrat writing for Europeans, made shrewd observations about the presidency ...