When Steve Jobs was 6 years old, his young next door neighbor found out he was adopted. "That means your parents abandoned you and didn't want you," she told him. Jobs ran into his home, where his ...

Catherine Lacey’s new novel follows a polarizing artist through a fractured country. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission ...

FRONTLINE presents a comprehensive biography on the world leader who has emerged as a man at war with the twentieth century itself. In the two decades John Paul II has commanded the world stage, ...

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To those readers who prize "relatability," Catherine Lacey's latest novel may as well come wrapped in a barbed wire book jacket. There is almost nothing about Biography of X, as this novel is called, ...

A new biography reveals the nicknames First Lady Melania Trump and Ivanka Trump have for each other. Melania called Ivanka "The Princess," while Ivanka used to call Melania "The Portrait" because she ...

China’s longest-serving premier was a remarkably capable yet deeply flawed politician who tried, often in vain, to mitigate the impact of Mao’s disastrous policies. A new biography cuts through ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When the space shuttle Endeavour blasted off on its second mission, it carried the first African ...