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Decades before the violent Unite the Right rally in 2017 in Charlottesville that drew white nationalists protesting the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue, the city was targeted by a white supremacist who hoped to ignite a race war.

Once a second banana, always a second banana when in the shadow of a brighter star. For musician and actor Desi Arnaz, that shadow belonged to Lucille Ball, his wife and co-star on the ground-breaking 1950s sitcom “I Love Lucy.

At age 13, Sydney Singleton discovered an old photograph tucked away in a drawer in her paternal grandmother’s guest room. It was a portrait of a Black girl just entering her teen years — a girl who looked a lot like Sydney.

Is there a popular fiction writer alive who conveys falling in love better than Taylor Jenkins Reid? Consider these lines between the two central characters of her new love story, “Atmosphere,” set in the 1980s as two NASA astronauts in the space shu

Taylor Jenkins Reid recalls a moment writing her new novel, “Atmosphere: A Love Story,” set against NASA's robust 1980s shuttle program, where she felt stuck. She went, where she often goes, to her husband to talk it through.

NEW YORK (AP) — Sen. Cory Booker has expanded upon his historic Senate floor speech from last month into an upcoming book. “Stand” will be published Nov. 11, St. Martin's Press announced Wednesday.

More than two decades have passed since historian Jay Winik wrote about the end of the Civil War with a book with “April 1865: The Month That Saved America." His latest book covers the period of time that nearly led to its disintegration.

Detective Sergeant Stillwell of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has been banished from the homicide division.

Stephen King’s favorite private investigator returns in “Never Flinch,” the sixth novel by King featuring Holly Gibney, who readers first met in the Bill Hodges trilogy (“Mr.

Whether you first knew him as one of the “Two Wild and Crazy Guys” on Saturday Night Live or as one of the investigating podcasters on Hulu's “Only Murders in the Building,” chances are you've seen Steve Martin's comedic talent in some form on screen