Banned Books Week gives families a chance to talk about censorship and decide for themselves what kids should read

By Gary Kamiya. A literary history of money, from the Bible to 'The Great Gatsby.'

The renowned artist quit his latest project on federal lands because he wants to be free. He's a model for us all

All eyes will be on the Patriots and Eagles today during the performance of the national anthem. Then what?

Phrases like French kiss, blind date, sexpert and backseat driver were all coined in the roaring twenties

An look into why YA loves this tale of transformation under the tutelage of another, and the lie inherent within

The TV star wrapped up CPAC with a vintage tour of paranoid history and melodrama

Perhaps Chazelle's greatest accomplishment here is to make Margot Robbie and Brad Pitt boring

The co-director of HBO's new doc "Liberty: Mother of Exiles" talks patriotism and the statue's mystery model

Leonardo DiCaprio plays yet another Gatsby in Martin Scorsese's dizzying, allegorical "Wolf of Wall Street"

Carl Sandburg reads his ode to the American people in this 1950s recording from his collection of poetry.

A clueless writer proves no match for "Babette, the strongest woman alive" and her wild and woolly circus family.

We know the results of Reagan's tax and spending policies. So why do GOP presidential candidates keep pushing them?

Salon talks to series creator Matthew Weiner about his new audio book recording of "Lunch Poems"

We could have turned fully fascist back then. Let’s hope we don’t do that now