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'Voltaire In Love': An Ardent, Intellectual Affair

Nancy Mitford's Voltaire in Love is a delightful account of a brainy romp of a romance in 18th-century France. Writer Stacy Schiff says Mitford's retelling of the affair feels every bit as passionate as it must have been in the original.

'Spy': A Nuclear Caper, With A Nod From Clinton

In Thomas Caplan's latest novel, The Spy Who Jumped Off the Screen, Ty Hunter, a spy-turned-movie star, is called back to service at the U.S. president's behest. The book is Caplan's third work of fiction, and an early draft got a little editing help from the real-life ex-president.

'Spy': A Nuclear Caper, With A Nod From Clinton

In Thomas Caplan's latest novel, The Spy Who Jumped Off the Screen, Ty Hunter, a spy-turned-movie star, is called back to service at the U.S. president's behest. The book is Caplan's third work of fiction, and an early draft got a little editing help from the real-life ex-president.

Taylor Swift performs during "The Eras Tour" in Nashville, Tenn., on May 5, 2023.

'Time' magazine names Taylor Swift its 2023 Person of the Year

The 33-year-old international pop star has been playing to massive crowds on her Eras Tour and has garnered attention for her budding romance with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.

Brazil's Gabriel Medina reacts after getting a large wave in the 5th heat of the men's surfing round 3, during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, in Teahupo'o, on the French Polynesian Island of Tahiti, on July 29, 2024.

A photographer captured the perfect shot of an Olympic surfer's record-breaking ride

AFP photographer Jerome Brouillet captured the Brazilian world champion Gabriel Medina surfing through a huge wave in a ride that would net an Olympic-record score.

First Listen: Timo Andres And The Metropolis Ensemble, 'Home Stretch'

The composer and pianist weaves together the DNA of Mozart, Charles Ives and Brian Eno. The results provide thought-provoking glimpses into how the past and the present merge in classical music today.

The 2014 season will mark Derek Jeter's 20th — and last — season with the New York Yankees.

To Strive, To Seek, To Find: The End Of A Baseball Era

Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter announced this week that he would retire at the end of the season. "For the last 20 years I've been completely focused on two goals: playing my best and helping the Yankees win. ... It's time for something new." Author Julia Keller saw the move as a poetic flourish on a long career.

Composer Richard Sherman performs at The Los Angeles Children's Chorus' Annual Gala in 2015.

Disney composer Richard M. Sherman has died at 95

Sherman and his brother Robert became Disney Studios' first ever in-house songwriters. They won two Oscars for their songs and score to Mary Poppins and composed the classic "It's a Small World."

In the 1920s, Harlem's African-American population exploded — with nearly 200,000 African Americans inhabiting a neighborhood where there had been virtually no blacks 15 years earlier. Above, a Harlem street in 1942.

Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North

More than 6 million African-Americans moved from the South to cities in the Northeast and Midwest between 1915 and 1970. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson documents the resulting demographic and social changes in her history of the Great Migration, The Warmth of Other Suns.

Eloise At 55: The Legacy Of Kay Thompson

Fifty-five years after Eloise first appeared, the impish girl who lived in the Plaza Hotel is as iconic as ever. Author Sam Irvin, who has written a new biography of Eloise creator Kay Thompson, talks about the famous storybook character and the eccentric actress behind her.

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