Photographer Gordon Parks’ hunt for childhood friends reveals 1940s black life under segregation One of the most celebrated African-American artists of his time, Gordon Parks, is the subject of ...

But for Karen Haas ’78, what began with a casual phone inquiry about a single photo by the late photographer Gordon Parks ultimately led to a stunning new book of Parks’ unpublished ... “I became ...

The exhibition of Gordon Parks’ work in London aims to reposition him as more than a photojournalist, and instead as an artist against social injustice Born into poverty and segregation in ... each ...

Story by Lawrence Specker, al.com • 2mo O ne photo taken in Alabama, an iconic reminder of the segregation era, is among New ...

In his book “Patchwork Apartheid ... to sell to people of color amid restrictions and segregation? Gordon: Here’s a small but interesting story. One of the biggest developers in St. Louis ...

3 weeks on the list The story of a murder spree in 1920s Oklahoma that targeted Osage Indians, whose lands contained oil. The fledgling F.B.I. intervened, ineffectively. If a book is not in a rank ...

A massive, two-volume coffee table book revisits the heyday of classic Hollywood glamour as seen in Life magazine. By Gilbert Cruz In “On Freedom,” Timothy Snyder looks at what kinds of ...

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Two famous British institutions will celebrate their centenaries in 2009: the Security Service and the Secret Intelligence Service, better known as MI5 and MI6. They maintain an aura of secrecy, a ...

The “X-Files” and “Sex Education” actress asked women around the world about their sexual fantasies and shares them in the new book “Want.” This splendid new account of the 40th ...

she can report on a story live on-air (and win an Emmy doing it) and she can help raise money to fight climate change with fiancé Jeff Bezos. Now, with the release of her first children's book ...

About the book: “A Novel Summer” by Jamie Brenner is a captivating story about a woman who returns to her family’s beach house, where she confronts old secrets and discovers the power of ...