Gloria Grahame’s Reign as the Queen of Film Noir In 1947, her contract was sold to RKO, where she had a notable role in the B-thriller Crossfire alongside Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan ...

As her Majesty’s project, The Reading Room, has its first festival, it's time we all ditched the drivel on TV and picked up a book instead ...

By Bruce Handy In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. By Abby McGanney Nolan How ...

Mitch McConnell said after the 2020 election that then-President Donald Trump was ''stupid as well as being ill-tempered," a ...

But, as Ysenda Maxtone Graham discovers in Sonia Purnell's new biography, Pamela was in fact ... As Roger Lewis finds out, Emma Kenny's new book The Serial Killer Next Door is not for the faint ...

By Adam Sternbergh Fitting In Was Never Randy Newman’s Jam A biography of the singer behind ... take turns exploring a messy legacy. Two new books by psychologists explore the roots of ...

When a femme fatale makes her entrance in a noir film, there’s no mistaking her because trouble brews around her like an aura ...

Like HG Blake (Elizabeth’s father), “He was an orphan and had come to the small village of Medina with his foster family at the age of 12,” the book notes. “Later, he worked in a dry goods ...

Luckily, this highly... First came Frances, who lives alone near the city until Graham moves in. Over the course of the book their family grows and grows with children and Grandma and animals of ...

Self’s new novel, about a woman struggling against her confined role in the 1950s, is based on his late mother’s journals. “From Here to the Great Unknown,” completed by Riley Keough ...

Gloria St. Martin-Lowry is the president of HPWP Group, a company that promotes leadership and organizational development through positivity, coaching and problem-solving. HPWP is driven to create ...