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Catherine Lacey’s new novel follows a polarizing artist through a fractured country. By Dwight Garner When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission ...

Of history's many stories of a power behind the throne, one of the most intriguing is that of Edith Wilson, first lady to President Woodrow Wilson. She met and married him in 1915, while he was ...

When Steve Jobs was 6 years old, his young next door neighbor found out he was adopted. "That means your parents abandoned you and didn't want you," she told him. Jobs ran into his home, where his ...

Max Boot is a historian and biographer, best-selling author, and foreign-policy analyst. He is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations ...

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China’s longest-serving premier was a remarkably capable yet deeply flawed politician who tried, often in vain, to mitigate the impact of Mao’s disastrous policies. A new biography cuts through ...

At a time when America struggled -- often violently -- to sort out the competing claims of democracy and individual gain, Carnegie championed both. He saw himself as a hero of working people, yet he ...

Oleksandr Usyk, of Ukraine, is the undisputed heavyweight world champion. Usyk is also a former cruiserweight undisputed champion and 2012 Olympics gold medalist. He won the WBA, WBO and IBF ...

Devin Haney, of Las Vegas, is the WBO welterweight champion. In his debut at junior welterweight, Haney defeated Regis Prograis to become the WBC champion. Haney lost a decision to Ryan Garcia in ...