Ernest Hemingway’s Childhood Scrapbooks
In July the John F. Kennedy Library presented digital versions of Ernest Hemingway’s childhood scrapbooks.
Biographies
Taking the Plunge: Red Bull Photo Contest Winners
The 2013 competition has some terrific winners.
Aaron Hernandez Was a Bad Boy
That’s what Rolling Stone magazine says in a new investigative piece.
Harvard Asks: Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders?
And yes, they do mean men.
Remembering Marian McPartland
Saluting “the genteel Englishwoman who became a fixture of the American jazz scene.”
Elmore Leonard is Dead at Age 87, Alas
The esteemed crime and western novelist who wrote Get Shorty and Out of Sight has died a few weeks after suffering a stroke.
Oscar Pistorius Indicted For Murder
The South African Olympics star faces charges of murder and illegal possession of ammo in the death of his girlfriend.
Happy Birthday, Charles Bukowski
Writer Charles Bukowski was born in Germany on 16 August 1920. He was drunk by 17 August 1920.
Four Short Documentaries
See four short films about loss. Not cry-your-eyes-out grief — tales of loss that are both wistful and hopeful.
World Goes Nuts Over Bad Jerry Lewis Movie
Yes, it’s redundant to say “bad Jerry Lewis” movie, but footage of his famously bad clown-in-a-concentration camp movie has been released. That is, footage from the making of it.