The heroines of Brit chick-lit goddess Sophie Kinsella overbuy at Barneys, suffer from spates of amnesia and are forever messing up at work. Yet this doesn’t keep them from ...

When 15-year-old Eddie Joseph joined the Black Panthers in 1968, he expected to receive a gun and orders to start the revolution. Martin Luther King Jr. had recently been assa...

Dressing windows at Barneys. Penning books. Helping deck the White House for Christmas. Fashion guru Simon Doonan seems to spread style everywhere — and to look thin and hip...

Jodi Kantor’s “The Obamas” ($30, Little, Brown and Company) was embargoed until Jan. 10. That didn’t stop politics junkies from buzzing about it weeks in advance. Kant...

Reverend Billy has hair so high it practically touches heaven. He wears a white suit and a collar that marks him as a man of God. Reverend Billy is not afraid to holler at you...

In the hospital for what turned out to be just a health scare a few years ago, Eric Weiner realized — deep-down-in-the-gut realized — we’re all going to die. He began lo...

In his first book, “The Nerdist Way” ($25, Berkley), comedian Chris Hardwick describes a Nerdist as “an artful nerd.” A Nerdist “doesn’t just consume,” he writes...

As fashion director at Manhattan’s Kleinfeld Bridal salon, Randy Fenoli is an expert on veils, bustles and other little details of big-day wear. He’s also the unofficial s...

The predecessor of the modern restaurant was … a “health food” in 18th-century France? Oui, oui. Originally the name of a bouillion served at Paris’ public houses, “...

Joan Didion has been many people over her 76 years: journalist, wife, novelist, mother, widow. To each role, she has brought her singular gift as an observer of lives. “Life...

In 2008, photographs of red-dyed, “lost” Amazonian tribesmen firing arrows at a plane overhead stunned people around the world. When National Geographic journalist Scott W...

Tom Brokaw left the “NBC Nightly News” anchor desk seven years ago, but he’s still digging up hard truths about our world. In his latest book, "The Time of Our Lives," B...

Sometimes, scary things come in small packages. A mosquito sentenced George Washington to a lifelong battle with malaria. Rocky Mountain locusts, in a swarm the size of Califo...

It’s one of the most iconic visual documents of the civil rights era: A young black student walks to school, her eyes hidden behind sunglasses and her books clutched to her ...

Here are three important things we don’t know about “The Iliad,” the Greek epic poem set during the Trojan War: how much of it is based on fact, whether it was all writt...