T he best nonfiction books of the year tackle undeniably difficult topics. Many are personal stories about surviving the ...

We asked three critics to share their favorites of the year, and they served up diverse offerings heavily weighted toward ...

You-Can-Eat,’ this year’s films pushed boundaries and highlighted the power of representation. The past year has been a ...

Iran bans its citizens from visiting Israel, but numerous Iranian writers and artists in exile have traveled to the country ...

The year’s best memoirs, biographies, history and more, as selected by the staff of The Washington Post’s Book World.

Asher Wertheimer was a Jewish tycoon who asked John Singer Sargent to paint him. The results are strange, slippery—and some ...

Under pressure from his wealthy family, real estate heir Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander claimed that his new wife, Alice Beatrice Jones, had tricked him into believing she was white ...