The 15th Beijing International Film Festival has revealed that acclaimed Chinese director and actor Jiang Wen will preside ...

Joan Didion haunts Los Angeles. In January, as catastrophic fires ripped through the Pacific Palisades and Altadena, Didion’s name became an echo on social media timelines as Angelenos shared ...

If Joan Didion had an overarching preoccupation as a journalist and novelist, it was to find interstices where truth and myth blend into each other. In many of the essays that were collected in ...

Yet occupation remains one of the least understood aspects of the war. This was the conclusion of three panelists at a recent Kennan Institute discussion. How can an issue that has been at the heart ...

And because of that, I got to know residents in the building, including two elderly residents who had lived there before and during the occupation, one of whom had a remarkable private art collection ...

By Joanne Kaufman Joan Dye Gussow, a nutritionist and educator who was often referred to as the matriarch of the “eat locally, think globally” food movement, died on Friday at her home in ...

She said that she was once at romance novelist Jackie Collins’ house playing billiards when her sister, “Dynasty” actress Joan Collins, jokingly told her two things to never do after turning ...

Joan Baez’s body of work is so massive that even she’s surprised by it at times. Scanning a list of items on display at "Joan Baez: A Life of Music, Art, and Activism" at the Folk Americana ...

By Alissa Wilkinson This article is an adapted excerpt from “We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine,” by Alissa Wilkinson for Liveright Publishing Corporation.

Tribute to Joan Chen: The acclaimed actress will be honored with the SIFF Career Achievement Award at the Closing Night ...