Columnist Richard Hakes takes a trip back in time to profile an Iowa City family that was nearly the cover feature in LIFE ...

A real-life Spanish nun turned conquistador is the focus of a new novel by an Argentine writer.

As the first Asian, and only South Asian, to be nominated for a Best Actress Oscar, Merle Oberon’s place in the pantheon of ...

In her recent memoir "Care and Feeding," Laurie Woolever writes about what it was like to be the assistant to world-famous ...