Leon Trotsky

In London on Wednesday evening, American Barbara Kingsolver beat out homecountry favorite Hilary Mantel for the 15th Annual Orange Prize for fiction. Kingsolver's book "The Lacuna" was a surprise winner over Mantel's "Wolf Hall," which has taken many...

Of all the many spellbindingly jaw-droppingly dishy anecdotes in Peter Biskind's new Warren Beatty biography, "Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America," I was found myself especially astounded--in a "what would a therapist make of this" kind of way--by...

The ultimate anti-glamour pose and every publicist's nightmare, the celebrity mugshot is our TMZ culture's shortcut to collective schadenfreude. So long as stars continue to collide with the law, we'll have these unflattering images as fodder for easy...

If McCain loses, the rationale you will hear on the right will be that for all his attempts to mollify the movement, the Senator wasn't a real conservative and therefore never the correct man to expose Barack Obama as the......