The actress's father self-publishes a novel whose mind-boggling details include the first lady's embryos?

The right thinks if you add the words "fact check" to something, it sounds more factual

Since the Byzantine era, anecdotes about the mishaps of rulers have been compiled, shared and published

Salon talks to Katie Rose Guest Pryal about the skeptical scholarship on the hero of "To Kill a Mockingbird"

Physician Haider Warraich explores the science and history of pain in new book “Song of Our Scars"

Theodore Roosevelt was a great conservationist — and also a prolific hunter. In his mind, the two went hand-in-hand

The more affluent control the narrative so being "woke" will be hot until the rest of black America gets a voice

Raging against Republican hypocrisy is the tonic that keeps us old liberals forever young.

Pick of the week: Ignore the haters! Terrence Malick's tragic, erotic "To the Wonder" casts a powerful spell

With his latest tale of epic conspiracy and evil, Ellroy takes crime fiction as far as it can go -- and maybe even farther.

How do you arrange your body so you can lose yourself in a book?

Author Celeste Ng and the Hulu series' showrunnner discuss casting Mia as black, book clubs & vaginas (as one does)

For this Ethiopian-Swedish superchef, the all-American meal means heating up an iconic American meat

A professor says that only an African-American scholar could spot Fitzgerald's secret meaning.

The police targeting of black people is part of a long continuum in American history