A biography of the singer behind “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” and “Short People” considers a complicated man with a satirical ...

Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports” by Mark and Matthew Jacob takes on a challenging and exciting ...

In “Riding Like the Wind,” Iris Jamahl Dunkle recounts Babb’s adventurous life and makes the case for her neglected books.

The biography of Race Mathews, A Life in Politics, by his wife Iola Mathews, reflects a commitment ensuring Labor would ...

Dunkle, a Sebastopol-based poet and writer who teaches literature at UC Davis, has turned her research skills onto another ...

Harold Seaman and Vincent Forte were at the center of two cases that Paul O’Dwyer would never and could never forget. The two ...

Who decides what to name hurricanes — and why do they pick the names they do? Social media users have long claimed ...

Some credit 19th-century Australian meteorologist Clement L. Wragge for initiating the hurricane-naming process.

Max Boot's biography of Ronald Reagan is deeply researched and informative, but it sometimes stumbles when it tries to use ...

Amarillo ISD's upcoming forum with overview of the its current state and vision for the future is among community items of ...

Han Kang won "for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life." Her novel "The Vegetarian" won the International Booker Prize in 2016.

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