Dolly Parton belonged to a beloved category: the outlaw Christian, who loved Jesus and refused to hate anyone else.

D. Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his research on kuru, a fatal brain disease in Papua New Guinea. Over three ...

Kim Kardashian got famous off a sex tape. She was a twentysomething Los Angeles socialite and aspiring celebrity, the ...

She was commonly called the Queen of Country Music, but that is exactly wrong: she was democratic to her bones.

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A new biography of this crucial New York filmmaker, whose work confronts racial and economic divisions, reveals her furiously ...

But “The Dog Stars” was my first novel, and I didn’t want to plot or plan. I wanted to have as much fun as the reader would ...

Youth sentiment is a notoriously hard thing to track. Polling is a fraught enough enterprise without having to deal with ...

Lindsey Graham’s younger sister, who was appointed to his South Carolina Senate seat upon his death, may soon be elected to a ...

Tarlov occupies the hot seat on a Fox News panel of diehard conservatives, arguing for liberal values and rousing the ire of ...

Retired I.D.F. colonel Doron Meiner, who was arrested while trying to protect a Palestinian community from settlers in the ...

Seventeen years’ worth of National Geographics, stacked by my father in order of “least to most erotic.” Price: $400.