Each chapter has a leading movie or man (as the author points out, “they were pretty much all dudes”). Singer provides a brief biography and the tumultuous career trajectories of our stars: Ben ...

We love every piece we run. There are no winners or losers. But all kidding aside, here are October’s winners. Mariko Hewer’s ...

A formidable figure requires — and finds here — a formidable biographer.

A fact-packed, oddly flat portrayal of the singular diva.

A recap of the books we’ve spotlighted in the past few days. Kolkhoz by Emmanuel Carrère; translated by John Lambert (Farrar, ...

Still, The Night That Finds Us All is an impressive read that’s both eerie and tense. Despite some choppiness here and there, ...

The author of And I Will Tell You Mine comes to DC on Wed., Nov. 4th, at 7 p.m.!

Formulaically, it’s a cozy whodunit, but it’s also a travel romance that features as its main characters a vampire who was ...

Steven Leyva’s latest poetry collection is The Opposite of Cruelty.

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. “I read it in the New Yorker, secretly, when it came out. My tolerance for scary stories has ...

Varying from eccentric to psychotic, tender to drunk, each Clarke provides interactions that are uniquely authentic. Taken ...

That said, John Candy does an estimable job of narrating the great comedic actor’s life and of explaining what made him tick.