Celebrity Life
I Searched for Answers About My Enslaved Ancestor. What I Found Was More Questions
'Did slavery make home always somewhere else?'
Dana Schwartz Wrote the YA Romance She Always Wanted to Read
You might recognize Dana Schwartz’s name, it’s just a matter of where you’ve seen it. Some know her as the creator and host of the Noble Blood podcast, where she tells the stories of royals past; others through the parody Twitter account @GuyinyourMFA, which she started when she was a college student in 2013. There’s…
Lindsey Vonn: The World Deemed Me ‘Dramatic’ for My Injuries. A Man Would’ve Been Called Resilient
Toward the end of the 2015–2016 ski season, I was on a competitive high. I had come back from multiple crashes in 2013 and 2014 that left me with a swath of injuries, particularly to my knees, and I was winning race after race. Everything was going so well that with a few weeks still…
What It Takes to Get Support for a Black Boy With Special Needs
After just one IEP meeting at Tophs’ new school, I understood why many parents loathe them. Sometimes you walk into a cold, sterile room and sit across from people who must have once loved something about their job but have become dull to new stories and students. They’ve traded ideas and innovation for rote phrases.…
Nobel Laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah Urges Us Not to Forget the Past
When Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature last October, becoming the first Black writer to win the award since Toni Morrison in 1993, his books shot to the top of must-read lists. But in the U.S., as well as other parts of the world, the now 73-year-old author’s backlist (10…
This New Coffee Table Book Celebrates—and Showcases—100 Years of Jaguar History
The 271-page tome is a visual love letter to the British marque.
The 10 Most Anticipated Cookbooks of 2022
Baking bread may have been an early pandemic trend, but two years later, interest in cooking at home has not waned. As restaurants have struggled to remain open throughout the unpredictable peaks of COVID-19 variants and families working from home have bonded over a newfound opportunity to make their own meals, the publishing industry has…
Delia Ephron on Finding Love Again in her 70s
Delia Ephron is aware that her story sounds like it’s straight out of a movie. First, over the span of just a few years, the novelist and screenwriter suffered a crushing amount of loss. Her sister and collaborator, the acclaimed filmmaker and writer Nora Ephron, died of cancer in 2012. Three years later, she also…
Jon Stewart Clarifies His Comments About J.K. Rowling Being 'Anti-Semitic'
Shutting down drama. Jon Stewart cleared the air after his comments about the potentially anti-Semitic imagery in J.K. Rowling‘s Harry Potter series made headlines. The former Daily Show host, 59, took to Twitter on Wednesday, January 5, in an attempt to further explain his thoughts about the beloved fantasy novels and their author, 56, whose […]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Private Book Collection Is Heading to Auction
The sale includes RGB’s heavily annotated law tomes and a number of signed classics.
Cheer's Monica Aldama Addresses Jerry Harris, Talks 'DWTS' in Memoir
More than just mat talk. Cheer star Monica Aldama gave an inside look at life after a successful Netflix show in her memoir, Full Out: Lessons in Life and Leadership from America’s Favorite Coach. Throughout the book, the Navarro College coach addressed the sexual misconduct allegations surrounding her former cheerleader Jerry Harris, got real about […]
Best Celebrity Memoirs of 2021: Hannah Brown, Gabrielle Union and More
Bombshells for days. Hannah Brown, Will Smith, Katie Couric and more celebrities wrote memoirs in 2021 — and they weren’t afraid to share some of their deepest truths. The former Bachelorette opened up about her time on the dating show in November’s God Bless This Mess: Learning to Live and Love Through Life’s Best (and […]