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A new biography celebrates the sharp humour and difficult life of the Pulitzer-winning newspaper humourist, once known as ‘the wit of Washington’

Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their so...

War historically produces great literature, full of blood and anguish and the stories of our lives, J.P. Devine writes.

The company wants to attract a younger audience by moving beyond antiquated attitudes.

Here, an excerpt from a new biography of Mary Welsh Hemingway, the journalist who became Hemingway's fourth wife.

In the late 1990s, a time that seems ancient, I touched the emperor’s hem.

I was just reading an article about the oddly prolonged adolescence of American males, especially those in the movies. There's a common fantasy where the guys get away from their wives and girlfriends, and escape to where they're free to guzzle beer, eat sloppily, belch, fart, leave pizza boxes on the floor, scratch their butts, watch sports on TV, and in many other ways become irresistible to hot chicks. When was the last time you saw a man under 30 in the movies who had a stable marria...

The last shot of "Citizen Kane" showed the dead tycoon's storerooms, vast spaces filled with the jumble of a lifetime. One of the early shots in this documentary about George Stevens has something of the same quality. We see the memorabilia of his long career: cowboy hats, leather-bound scripts, cans of film, albums of photographs, Oscars, diaries, belt buckles -- everything with a story, and half the stories already forgotten.

Asners appearance as Marys crusty boss Lou Grant in his 40s catapulted him to a decades-long acting career that would include hundreds of TV and movie…

The art of Dolly Parton’s bra on The Spectator Australia | New YorkI hope this is my last week in the Bagel. I plan to fly first to Switzerland and then on…