Klein, whose last book cast new light on the designer Charles James, brings out the creative, tempestuous, multifaceted woman behind the famous husbands and lovers in this new biography.

One of the great directors of Hollywood’s Golden Age, George Cukor gave us innumerable classics—from Gaslight to A Star Is Born with Judy Garland to Best Picture-winner My Fair Lady —and basically ...

Andrew Limbong of the NPR Books team shares the nonfiction books he's most looking forward to reading this spring.

As the hardscrabble early life of Richard Burton comes under the spotlight in a new film starring Toby Jones and Lesley ...

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With a few notable exceptions, American presidents nurtured a lifetime habit of sustained character-building reading.

That Oscar went missing, with no one knowing for sure how long, before reappearing in a Mission District pawn shop window. The widely celebrated local writer who first won it had reportedly used it as ...

Inside the mine’s cavernous depths, Father (Michael Shannon), Mother (Tilda Swinton) and Son (George MacKay) live in an opulent mansion, where paintings and books ... on a biography of the ...

Pell was in the US on a book tour promoting ... Australian launch of a new biography – George Cardinal Pell, Pax Invictis, published by ­Ignatius Press. If the boy’s recovery were to be ...

Banned plays, swallowed slides, radical soundtracks — memoirs that shook the system find a home at an innovative project ...

When Eugene lawyer Roger Saydack was growing up in Detroit, Michigan, his father made it a point to regularly take him and ...