On Friday, the new biopic of the great Mexican comic Cantinflas, who was a major international movie star for more than four decades beginning in the late 1930s, was released here and nationally. To U ...

Four Bates seniors are hoping to get the chance to spend the next year seeking answers to some big questions. Finalists for the Watson Fellowship, these students are exploring differing approaches to ...

On Page 76 of the 1959 Hibbing, Minnesota, high school yearbook, a certain member of the senior class is quoted as vowing “to join ‘Little Richard’” after graduation. That didn’t happen. Once this ...

In 1950, James Baldwin and his lover, the painter Lucien Happersberger, set out from Paris for the mountains of Switzerland, where Baldwin, then around 25, hoped to climb his way out of a creative ...

Ever since the regime of Madero, comedians below the Rio Grande have savagely sniped at pompous Mexican politicos. Famed is Comic Roberto Soto for his feat of kidding Calles’ Labor Boss Luis Morones ...

The biography that Sam Tanenhaus began in 1998, Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America, has finally been published. Part of the reason Tanenhaus spent one year writing for every ...

Gwyneth Paltrow “isn’t too bothered” by the upcoming book about her life, a source tells Us Weekly exclusively. “Gwyneth’s been in the Hollywood game for a long time and so has a thick skin,” the ...

Much has been written about the therapeutic effects of reading. Carmen Martin Gaite, for example, expressed her views on the subject in 1989. “Reading provides insight into a secret world that ...

Arguments about past presidents shape the nation’s present understanding of itself, and hence its unfolding future. In recent years, biographies by nonacademics have rescued some presidents from ...

When the critic Janet Malcolm set aside a biography of Sylvia Plath and began reading a memoir about the author instead, she felt as if she “had been freed from prison.” The writing in the biography, ...

Jonathan Eig's "King: A Life," a biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., was recognized as one of the best books of 2023. Biographies offer a chance to explore the decision-making and ...