In “The Fire,” the reporter Cecilia Sala travels to Iran, Ukraine and Afghanistan and follows her generation into the fray. By Ruth Margalit Ruth Margalit is a contributing writer for The Times ...

Francis Crick missed a crucial seminar in 1951, probably because he was seeing a lover. James Watson did go, failed to take notes and misremembered key details. As a result, their first model of DNA ...

In 1950, James Baldwin and his lover, the painter Lucien Happersberger, set out from Paris for the mountains of Switzerland, where Baldwin, then around 25, hoped to climb his way out of a creative ...

“She totally missed everything, the truth of who I am, what my impact is,” Paltrow told British Vogue about Odell’s biography, noting that she did not personally read it but her husband, Brad Falchuk, ...

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An old literary saying has it that biographers “add a new terror to death.” With two biographies written while she was still breathing, Muriel Spark may have ...

The word "genius" is regularly used for absurdly talented artists and writers. Take Lin-Manuel Miranda, a composer, lyricist, director and actor best known for creating the musical Hamilton. Not only ...

The biography that Sam Tanenhaus began in 1998, Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America, has finally been published. Part of the reason Tanenhaus spent one year writing for every ...

In the introduction to “Clint: The Man and the Movies,” Shawn Levy sets out to differentiate his book from previous biographies of Clint Eastwood. The first he mentions, Richard Schickel’s “Clint ...

On Thursday, July 17, author Amy Odell gave fans a sneak peek into her new book titled Gwyneth: A Biography. The book goes in-depth into the life of 52-year-old actress and entrepreneur Gwyneth ...

From her romances with Ben Affleck and Brad Pitt to her fallout with Madonna, Gwyneth Paltrow’s life is the subject of the upcoming book “Gwyneth: The Biography.” Written and “rigorously reported” by ...

Gwyneth Paltrow “isn’t too bothered” by the upcoming book about her life, a source tells Us Weekly exclusively. “Gwyneth’s been in the Hollywood game for a long time and so has a thick skin,” the ...