BOOKS: The Independent’s writers look back on the literary year and select the very best books to gift your loved ones this ...

Who Was Newman Marshman? Newman Marshman was the inventor of the modern typewriter. As an African-American inventor, Marshman’s achievement is even more remarkable when one considers the natural ...

This letter was sent to the Institute of Historical Research at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, which is sponsoring on December 2 an online seminar at which Professor Aidan Beatty ...

If you want to know how he really feels, look at the quotes from his new biography. He has described Trump as: stupid, ill-tempered, narcissistic, despicable, outright liar and “practically and ...

In his tender and searching new biography of Lovelock, based on 80 hours of interviews with his subject, Jonathan Watts, global environment editor at the Guardian, embraces this multiplicity.

Melania Trump, born Melanie Knauss in Slovenia, became an international model before marrying Donald Trump. Serving as First Lady from 2017 to 2021, she focused on children’s issues through her ...

Kamala Harris is a leading American politician and attorney, who is currently the Vice President of the United States. In her career, she has made history by being the first woman, the first ...

Biographer Bill Zehme died before completing his magnum opus, ‘Carson the Magnificent.’ Then his former research assistant ...

Now add to that list “Letters,” his life story viewed through the prism of his correspondence. Nonetheless, Sacks’s shelf life has not expired. Because, like his great heroes Charles Darwin ...