Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortenson, overcame a challenging childhood as a foster child to become Hollywood's enduring icon. Her journey from a factory worker to a celebrated actress and ...

A divorced single mother in late 1950s London keeps four colour-coded notebooks because she cannot write fiction anymore. The ...

Back at the Yale library that holds his archive, the low-key creator of “Doonesbury” reunites with the journalist who pieced ...

There is plenty of intriguing sci-fi on offer this month, whether it’s solar-powered cities from Adrian Tchaikovsky or a ...

Setting aside that it is clear from this talmudic discussion that it was a common enough practice for fathers to teach their daughters Torah, the concern is not abstract opposition to women’s learning ...

Valie Export . At age twenty-eight, Waltraud Hollinger changed her name to VALIE EXPORT, in all uppercase letters, to announce her presence in the Viennese art scene. Eager to c ...

One of the clearest examples of an anti-feminist conspiracy theory that lay behind a neo-Nazi attack, DiBranco said, took ...

Now in its 12th year, the Bay Area Book Festival is back and seemingly bigger than ever. More than 350 authors will gather on 21 stages for a three-day bacchanalia of literature, which in the past has ...

Cincinnati's Mercantile Library is trying to solve a mystery involving stained glass, women's suffrage and a church in small-town Indiana.

Look! Up in the Sepulveda Pass! It’s the Skirball Cultural Center’s new exhibition ‘Inventing America: The Comic Book ...

Rosie O'Donnell opens up about getting a facelift after losing 50 pounds, reversing her longtime vow to never undergo plastic ...

Part of the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, he went on to reclaim a leading musician of the psychedelic era as a distinctly ...