Rock journalist Bob Spitz's new biography of the Beatles is decidedly not prettified: venereal disease, drugs, and bad business are all part of... Behind the Myth: A New Beatles Biography Behind the ...

"Biography of a Constellation," by Lila Rose Kaplan '02, is an experimental play that evolves in concentric circles through time and space. Moving from a Greek myth to a 19th-century Harvard ...

Christopher McKittrick takes a close look at the history of ZZ Top in the new biography Gimme All Your Lovin’: The Blues, Boogie, and Beard of ZZ Top’s Billy F. Gibbons Credit: Photo by Brian Marks.

For much of his life, Paul Gauguin railed against the deadening effects of bourgeois domesticity. But as Sue Prideaux writes in “Wild Thing,” her terrific new biography of the artist, for about a ...

It’s hard to trust “Walt: The Man Behind the Myth” (6 p.m. Sunday, WLS-Ch. 7), a lavish new documentary on producer-impresario Walt Disney on the 100th anniversary of his birth. How can you, when it’s ...

Like Marilyn Monroe, James Dean is the kind of movie star whose legend overshadows questions of talent. If it were possible to judge him objectively, he might be little more than an historical ...

Make us a Preferred Source on Google to see more of us when you search. Add Preferred Source William J. Mann acknowledges in his doorstop of a biography, "Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn," that the ...

In this slender collection of four essays, Leeming brings myth out of the past and smartly into the present. One chapter each is devoted to the themes of religion, creation, deity and heroes. Like ...