Three filmmakers dive into the battles that both united and divided the women’s liberation movement of the 1970s, as ...

He wrote more than 130 books, mostly collections of poetry and translations of classics, as well as lowbrow novels under a ...

When I was a teenager, a mostly forgotten series of novels taught me U.S. history. How would they read to me now?

This is all known to most movie fans, but where Clint the book is arguably most compelling is in its discussion of Eastwood’s ...

Research into James Baldwin's archives reveals incisive details about the writer's personal relationships, both platonic and romantic, with other men ...

Before the Independence Day fireworks this week, try this short quiz on America’s popular books published during the ...

I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, by Hala Alyan (Avid Reader). This affecting memoir, by a Palestinian American poet, is structured around the arc of a surrogate pregnancy, but it bears the emotional ...

Sam Tanenhaus' new biography examines the life and influence of the political commentator, magazine editor and TV debater who catalyzed America's conservative movement.

Janet Jackson, heartbroken over what our country has become: My America stands for people who welcome the oppressed, weary ...