Maria Riva, an actress and author who spent much of her life as a self-described "handmaiden" to her mother - the German-born Hollywood star Marlene Dietrich - and whowrote a harrowing biography that ...

What to do with Gertrude Stein? Decades after her death, she still bestrides the literary landscape like a mastodon, ...

The book The Stories of Hans Christian Andersen says, "He was unnerved by anything having to do with sex," and that "His ...