A book of starlet glam shots raises questions like: Was it bad choices or bad luck that kept Sharon Stone from ruling Hollywood after "Basic Instinct"?

Have scholars given the cavewoman a more passive image than she deserves?

American blacks should stop romanticizing Africa. It's a nightmare of violence and corruption, says the Washington Post's former Africa bureau chief.

David Cronenberg's "Crash" hypnotically explores the intersection between sex and death.

Brazil is trying to clone its most endangered species. Conservation experts insist there must be a better way

A photographic masterwork illuminates a continent's life-spanning range of cultural rites.

The British musician opens up for the umpteenth time about his hatred of Jamie Oliver

Eric Garner is just one example of black life devalued. Here's how white victimization is tearing the nation apart

In a finale written by King himself, the author hauls out old tropes, wasting a chance to evolve his story for 2021

The flappers Albert Arthur Allen photographed wear bobbed hair, high heels and not much else.

I was working at the Fukushima plant when the earthquake hit. I thought we'd seen the worst. Then came the tsunami

Readers respond to M.J. Rose's story about electronic publishing and our interview with neurologist Jonathan Pincus.

Elephants, rhinos and gorillas could all disappear, a new study warns, leaving "empty landscapes" behind

Engineer that designed creatures for the Harry Potter films invents a SUV-size insectoid robot he calls the Mantis

"Mission to America," Walter Kirn's delightful portrait of a nation at loose spiritual ends, outdoes the work of Tom Wolfe.