My mother grew up knowing that her father had wanted to be a writer — and, along with the red hair and the freckles, she inherited those aspirations. So did I.
In his quest for truth, Herzog admitted to "playing with facts."
Which of the "Little Women" girls is your favorite is the reigning feminine litmus test, perhaps not for the kind of girl you are but for the kind of woman you'd like to become.
The history of the relentless campaign to force Americans to accept the automobile.
On old Catholic traditions and breaking bread with the dead.
Ian McKellen owes an extraordinary debt to Ronald — or J.R.R. — Tolkien.
A trip to the city of Matera in southern Italy.
Open-heart surgery was a postwar American invention, as miraculous as space travel and as bloody as the Battle of the Bulge.
Pastrana had two rare congenital disorders that meant her face and body were covered in dark hair, and it looked as if she had a second set of teeth.
No one knows who the first Indigenous girl or woman to vanish along the highway between Prince Rupert and Prince George was, or when it happened.
No one is as right about everything as the jerk thinks he is. He would learn by listening. And one of the things he might learn is the true scope of his jerkitude.
Former speechwriter Adam Frankel on what it was like to write for a uniquely writerly president.
The notion that testosterone drives violent crime is like a zombie, a fact that seemingly can't be killed with new research.
On the appeal of grossness online.
A femme fatale harbors a secret pain or experienced a traumatic childhood loss. As a result, she has garnered a reputation for danger.
How an old film set in Paris after the destruction of civilization has proven uniquely prescient about the present.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, no media executive plotted to reach disillusioned conservatives. Most had no inkling that this potential audience existed.
America loves a story about capture and escape. Asylums provide a tantalizing setting.
"I wish I could tell you when I first noticed that I'd become part of someone else's show."
From Lewis Carroll to the Mushroom Planet, here's a selection of a comprehensive guide to mushrooms for all you funghis out there.