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In The Battle of Versailles, fashion critic Robin Givhan tells the story of the groundbreaking runway show that pitched French couture designers against American up-and-comers.

J.C. Hallman's audacious account of his engagement with the erotic writing of Nicholson Baker makes a splash, but critic Heller McAlpin says the book sometimes runs aground in self-indulgence.

How much do we read into ourselves when we write a diary? Author Patrick DeWitt recommends the dark, deep journal of a man suffering from a nervous breakdown.

The U.S. Forest Service is proposing renaming Ohio's only national forest at the request of nearly a dozen Native nations, including the Shawnee Tribe.

Wenner, the founder of Rolling Stone magazine, is facing criticism for saying that Black and female musicians were not "articulate" enough to be included in his new book, which features seven interviews with white, male rock 'n' roll icons.

What if this desert city was better designed to protect against the deadly heat that is inevitably coming with climate change?

Singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens has been making soulful introspective music for more than 20 years without revealing too much about his own personal life. His latest album, Javelin, is out Friday.

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says that locals in an area about 35 miles north of Baghdad tipped off the government to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's location several weeks ago. That information was then passed along to U.S. officials, who used it to kill Zarqawi and seven associates with an airstrike Wednesday.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken goes to Israel to show the administration's support for a country in mourning and now conducting intense air strikes in the crowded Gaza Strip.

Both candidates wear bullet proof vests after the assassination of a frontrunner last month. And both are criticized for not having more defined plans on how to combat growing crime.