Drew Magary’s daughter, 7, already knows how to get a rise out of her dad. Her favorite word for a while was “faka” — which Magary interpreted as kidspeak for one of t...

Via his syndicated newspaper column, “Savage Love,” and his “It Gets Better” anti-bullying campaign, Dan Savage serves as one of the country’s loudest advocates for ...

Short stories are like Brussels sprouts, says Mark LaFramboise, head buyer for Politics and Prose: Once you’ve disliked one, you’re loath to try another. Yet “at the mom...

The Green Party’s champion always has some new cause. Right now, he also has a new book, “Told You So,” a collection of his weekly columns from between 1972 and 2012. Wh...

Ten years ago, Afghan-born author Khaled Hosseini found blockbuster fame with “The Kite Runner,” a tale of two boys set against the late-’70s fall of the Afghan monarchy...

Lucian Perkins was a summer intern at the Washington Post in 1979 when he snapped a set of black-and-white photos at punk shows around the District. He’d stay at the paper f...

After 35 years of poking fun at world leaders and satirizing hot-button global issues with his incisive editorial cartoons, Kevin “KAL” Kallaugher still approaches each as...

One of only a few women to have earned the title Iron Chef, Alex Guarnaschelli — a Food Network host, judge and competitor — has released her first cookbook, “Old-School...

Legendary Detroit Tigers slugger Hank Greenberg was a two-time MVP who nearly broke Babe Ruth’s home run record when he hit 58 dingers in the 1938 season. He was just as fam...

Go get a snack. Now take a bite. Now chew. Chew some more. And some more. In fact, chew it for 10 minutes, until it’s entirely liquid. We’ll wait. Now swallow. Such thorou...

His younger brother, Rahm, is the mayor of Chicago, a former White House chief of staff and the rumored inspiration for the “West Wing” character Josh Lyman. His youngest ...

Like most kids, Demetri Martin used to doodle during class. “Then I stopped, maybe in sixth grade,” Martin says. “So my drawing has not really evolved very much.” When...

Bob Thompson spent three years with the song that’s about to be stuck in your head. In researching “Born on a Mountaintop: On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of...

In school, we learn that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb in his lab in Menlo Park, N.J. He had the idea and he developed the technology to make it a reality. The truth i...

As an artilleryman in the Army’s 1st Armored Division, Roy Scranton was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and 2004. He draws from his experiences in Iraq as a fiction writer and co-e...