Sotomayor and the struggle to be ordinary

A black president introduced his Hispanic Supreme Court nominee while his white vice president watched. It was a custom-made American tableau, the politics of biography.

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Scholars Debate Biography of Thai King

An American journalist whose critical book on Thailand's king is banned took the limelight at an international academic conference Thursday even though the author didn't appear in person.

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The turning point in Molly Ivins's life, suggest the authors of this biography, may have been the motorcycle accident that killed her college boyfriend, Hank Holland.

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Ludwig von Mises was snubbed by economists world-wide as he warned of a credit crisis in the 1920s. We ignore the great Austrian at our peril today.

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George McGovern seems to remain active in public service decades after losing the 1972 presidential election to Richard Nixon.

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"Spike" Milligan was born in Ahmednagar, India, on 16 April 1918 to an Irish-born officer in the British Army and his wife.

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A specter is haunting the Republican Party — the specter of John Galt. In Ayn Rand's libertarian epic "Atlas Shrugged," Galt, an inventor disgusted by creeping American collectivism, leads the country's capitalists on a retributive strike.

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Tycoons, evolution and the environment were among the subjects of this year's National Book Award nominees. Winners in the four competitive categories, each of whom will receive $10,000, will be announced at a Nov. 18 ceremony in New York.

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I never read a book I didn't enjoy

If I didn't enjoy it, I didn't read it. Simple as that. That's how I exploited my WASP heritage- and squandered it. I'd pick up a thick book, and if I liked it, I'd take my time reading it.

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Media mogul and grumpy old man Rupert Murdoch has developed a "personal antipathy to the Internet", biographer Michael Wolff writes. Murdoch even thinks MySpace, which he himself paid $US580 million for, is kind of a criminal piece of garbage:

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From real-life Tinseltown princess to Princess Leia, Carrie Fisher has lived a life beyond colorful. In "Wishful Drinking," she writes candidly about family drama. An excerpt.

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William Safire has died on Sunday, September 27, 2009, as stated in this New York Times article.

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When Glenn Beck assumed morning-show duties at KZFM in Corpus Christi, Texas, in 1983, the zoo model was ascendant. It was the year Scott Shannon moved to New York to found Z100, where Shannon's "Z Morning Zoo" made the station No. 1 in the market within three months of its birth.

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Dr. Robert Kuske moved to Scottsdale after leading the breast cancer program at the University of Wisconsin as Full Professor of Human Oncology.

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William Shawcross, chosen by the Royal Family to write the official biography of Queen Elizabeth, the late Queen mother. offers an insight into his six years labour of love.

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Pat Tillman was the poster boy for the US war in Iraq.

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Latest Marilyn Monroe Bio Finds Family Secrets, Identity of Father

You would think after dozens of books and a handful of movies about this quintessential sex symbol, Marilyn Monroe, that there was nothing new to reveal. But author J.

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Wikipedia, one of the 10 most popular sites on the Web, was founded about eight years ago as a long-shot experiment to create a free encyclopedia from the contributions of volunteers, all with the power to edit, and presumably improve, the content.

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Scarring the blacktop

Scarring the Blacktop By Charlie G

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Stoning's premise, repeated with numbing regularity around the world today, is made all the more pressing by the masses of Iranians protesting in the streets today while the brutal Basij militia tries to beat them into submission.

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Thanks to that ghoulish prescience, Halperin has become a staple figure in the postmortem media frenzy. He claimed that Jackson was dying from a rare protein disorder called Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency.

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Soon after 9/11 we began to hear about Islam, the peaceful religion. The whole concept seems so ludicrous, but it filled the media. Can you imagine someone calling Buddhism, the peaceful religion? It is like saying circles, the round figure.

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David Herbert Donald, a leading American historian of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War who won Pulitzer Prizes for his biographies of the abolitionist statesman Charles Sumner and the novelist Thomas Wolfe, died Sunday in Boston.

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Joseph Marcelo Ejercito Estrada was born on April 19, 1937, in Tondo, Manila. His parents, Engr. Emilio Ejercito and Maria Marcelo, moved to San Juan where he grew up and where he continues to reside to this day.

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Biographies and information on the nine members of the nation's highest court.

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Zeta Jones' publicist denies that she is interested in playing the Scottish singer, tho she is interested in bringing her story to the big screen.

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Michael Dirda reviews a new book of Graham Greene's correspondence.

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