The singer, songwriter, and composer Randy Newman had a fascination with the legend of Faust that approached obsession.

Glenn Horowitz built a fortune selling the archives of writers such as Vladimir Nabokov and Alice Walker. Then a rock star ...

They emerged from 1960s Detroit with an explosive sound that paved the way for punk. As a new LP is released, those who knew ...

There are very few biographies of The Beatles, Patrick Humphries' 'With the Beatles' covers their career in three parts, 1940 ...

His movie songs are filled with memorable melodies; his own albums with unsavory characters. One of the most astute cultural ...

It seems appropriate to read about some of our greatest filmmakers during the fall. (Festival season! Prestige pics!

Jonathan Cape, an inprint of Vintage, Penguin Random House has acquired the biography of frontman of Bright Eyes and indie ...

With autumn weather finally here and spooky season upon us, there’s no better time – in our humble opinion – to curl up with a great new book. October brings with it a blockbuster month of new ...

Just shy of his 80th birthday, the Canadian singer-songwriter continues to make headlines thanks to a prolific musical career ...

Two of her books have been made into films; ‘The Vegetarian’ in 2009, directed by Lim Woo-Seong, and 2011's ‘Scars’, by the ...

South Korean author Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature for "for her intense poetic prose that confronts ...