John W. Miller, author of the bestselling Earl Weaver biography, tells me what surprised him as he researched the legendary ...

A historian of modern China, Jung Chang turns the lens back on herself in her newest book to understand how she sees the ...

The entertainment world is mourning the loss of a performer who could move seamlessly from the chilling paranoia of an Arctic ...

When the National Portrait Gallery replaced a portrait of President Trump this week, it took down a biography of his first ...

Lou Cannon, the eminent biographer of Ronald Reagan, and a caring, civic-minded, and consequential citizen of Santa Barbara, died on December 12 at ...

Outraged at what he deemed a literary injustice, Malcolm Cowley used his influence as a consulting editor at Viking and a well-connected critic to give Faulkner his due. In 1944-45 he published a ...

She was trying to prove the structure of the B form of DNA through mathematical computations and more than 100 hours of ...

We review the most anticipated movies of the coming year, which include the return of some of our favorite screen characters.

Lords of Finance provides an event-driven historical account of the run-up to 1929, but Sorkin’s book is a character-driven ...

The Nonfiction Author Series consists of four separate author presentations — each with a hot/cold buffet breakfast and a ...

To help organise your reading for the new year, I have asked publishers about the titles they plan to release in the areas of politics, ­biography and history. For more than 10 years I have been ...

Can you chip in? As an independent nonprofit, the Internet Archive is fighting for universal access to quality information. We build and maintain all our own systems, but we don’t charge for access, ...