The director has long shunned the spotlight, but his work conveys the force of a mighty personality. A new biography offers a ...

“The history of the world is but the biography of great men,” wrote the British historian, Thomas Carlyle, in the nineteenth century. Even leaving aside the misogyny, the statement was a very elitist ...

Horatio Alger's repetitive stories reached their true popularity and became synonymous with social mobility largely thanks to ...

White Plains collector Seth Kaller has an original copy of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech, which doesn't mention the dream.

The writer spent his life cultivating beauty—on the page and in the mirror—only to end it with a samurai-style suicide. Both ...

The greatest biographies ever written When someone is in the public eye, we often feel like we know them personally, despite ...

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran theologian executed by the Nazis, continues to be debated as a symbol of anti-Nazi resistance ...

New movies in theaters - Better Man, Den of Thieves 2 & more There's a great assortment of movies releasing this weekend, including the Robbie Williams biopic Better Man & Den of Thieves 2 ...

New movies in theaters - Better Man, Den of Thieves 2 & more There's a great assortment of movies releasing this weekend, including the Robbie Williams biopic Better Man & Den of Thieves 2 ...

Between them, James and Whitman represent the distinction between “life conceived as a discipline” and “life conceived as an ...

Often called “the man of steal” by sportswriters ... anthem is playing,” Steinbach recalled in Howard Bryant’s 2022 biography, “Rickey: The Life and Legend of an American Original.” ...