What does Little Rock author Ayana Gray have in common with mega-stars Heidi Klum, Guillermo del Toro and Charli XCX? Beyond their shelves of accolades, all four artists share a striking fixation in ...

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Francis Crick missed a crucial seminar in 1951, probably because he was seeing a lover. James Watson did go, failed to take notes and misremembered key details. As a result, their first model of DNA ...

“Theater is a big bust,” Sam Shepard told Newsweek in 1967, just as his star was rising in the off-Broadway world. “Nobody is taking big chances.” It was a bold statement for Shepard, who in the years ...

Gwyneth Paltrow is ready to talk about "Gwyneth." The Oscar winner told British Vogue in an interview that she has yet to read the biography, released in July by culture and fashion journalist Amy ...

In this stirring fantasy, bestseller Gray (Beasts of War) reimagines Medusa as a fierce heroine given to righteous anger, with a strong drive for justice and a deep desire for acceptance, all of which ...

Steve Jobs wasn’t simply a technology entrepreneur; he was a man who revolutionized the world in how people use technology. Steve Jobs went from building computers in his garage to creating ...

Wikipedia has lost a legal challenge to new Online Safety Act rules which it says could threaten the human rights and safety of its volunteer editors. The Wikimedia Foundation - the non-profit which ...

The biography that Sam Tanenhaus began in 1998, Buckley: The Life and the Revolution That Changed America, has finally been published. Part of the reason Tanenhaus spent one year writing for every ...

Amy Odell’s new biography of Gwyneth Paltrow, the endlessly controversial actress and Goop founder, does not pull any punches The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase ...