Essays by a writer of literary lives meditate on the obsessions and obstacles endemic to her trade.

Gage’s biography of J. Edgar Hoover is a page-turner I could barely put down. Hoover was a closeted obsessive, spending a career on an Ahab-like quest to uncover a nonexistent “deep state” of ...

"Succession" star Sarah Snook plays all the roles in Broadway's "The Picture of Dorian Gray," a send-up of the Oscar Wilde classic.

On the one hand, it memorializes an origin of Bachardy’s intense commitment to portraiture as an artistic genre. The Los ...

The newly renovated Fifth Avenue institution, which houses a treasure trove by any calculation, is a time capsule with a lot ...

1. James by Percival Everett (Doubleday: $28) An action-packed reimagining of “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” 2. The Women by Kristin Hannah (St. Martin's Press: $30) An intimate portrait of ...

Barbara Broccoli sells James ... books which held him back from making the cut. However, as Amazon has taken over the project they might see the whole scenario differently. According to GB News ...

Bonnie Prince Charlie” — the ill-fated Catholic Stuart claimant to the British throne — is entombed in marble splendor within ...

Musical Tick, Tick… Boom!, about an aspiring composer confronted by his 30th birthday, became an Oscar-nominated film in 2021 ...