A new biography gives a compelling sense of a comic and cinematic genius, and also of the forces that derailed her Hollywood career.

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In the nineteen-twenties, United States officials began preparing for the possibility of war in the Pacific, and the ...

The actor reflects on his journey in reverse: from his latest Tony nomination to his arrival in New York, waiting tables and dreaming of Broadway.

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A lot of Chinese car companies, their big success has come in learning by doing,” Ilaria Mazzocco, an expert on China’s ...

For years, universities have been less inclined to protect speech and quicker to sanction it. After this spring’s protests, ...

With a lopsided conservative majority on the U.S. Supreme Court, progressive activists are seeking legal opportunities in ...

“All around him the city as it once was, ranked tenements, laundry like sails on roofs, elms gray from coal smoke, but the ...

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On Friday, President Joe Biden publicly called on Hamas to agree to what he said was an Israeli ceasefire proposal that would ...

There are more than thirty full-length biographies of Sigmund Freud in circulation today. Why keep writing them? Generally, ...