This biography of Laura Bush was written with White House cooperation, so author Ronald Kessler interviewed Laura Bush's family and friends to understand the 43rd FLOTUS. Kessler writes about ...

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"All in the Family" star Sally Struthers is opening up about an experience with the late Betty White that was "not nice." During a recent appearance on the "Let's Talk About That! With Larry ...

It became the basis for a TV movie. As a cookbook author, TV personality and mentor, she sought to burst the chicken-fried stereotype of the South. Sometimes her life was as messy as her kitchen.

Jan 13, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Bessner A conversation with Peter Gordon about the enduring influence of the Frankfurt School's leader, the future of critical theory, and his recent book ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

Canadian officials are preparing retaliatory measures if the new U.S. administration imposes tariffs on Canadian imports. By Matina Stevis-Gridneff Mexican officials and other leaders in the ...

The new novel by “The Reader” author Bernhard Schlink follows a man trying to rescue a girl from the grip of neo-Nazis. In Adam Ross’s long-awaited second novel, a teenager in 1980 New York ...

Getty Sally Struthers is opening up about some negative memories of Betty White. On the Jan. 13 episode of Let's Talk About That! With Larry Saperstein and Jacob Bellotti, the 77-year-old ...

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Betty Shamieh with her first novel “Too Soon” at home in her Santa Clara workspace. Photo: Lea Suzuki/The Chronicle In another life, author Betty Shamieh says she would have been a stand-up comedian.