The National Museum of African American History and Culture is opening its newest exhibit called “In Slavery’s Wake: Making ...

New-release books explore the healing power of the sea, the blunders behind the downfall of Russia's last Tsar, an Australian murder mystery with a social media twist and an epic family saga ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Books are, despite the common adage, often intended to be judged by their covers. Their jacket flaps include marketing copy designed to entice a browser to ...

Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler’s Europe. By addressing the horror of ...

Early on in A Complete Unknown, Timothée Chalamet's Bob Dylan sidles into the hospital room of a dying Woody Guthrie, the young musician's hero. It's the early '60s and Dylan's guitar is still ...

The Bob Dylan Cinematic Universe is a-changing. Dozens of films about the legendary singer-songwriter already exist — including two documentaries by Martin Scorsese, the experimental 2007 ...

And “A Complete Unknown” digs into the elemental power of what Dylan created during this period, tossing off songs for the ages as if he’d pulled them out of the ages. That the Dylan we see ...

The best nonfiction books of the year tackle undeniably difficult topics. Many are personal stories about surviving the unthinkable. Salman Rushdie describes the violent attack that nearly killed him.

And so his admirable yet deeply frustrating “A Complete Unknown” strikes the only compromise it can between the man and his myth: It bends the tension between them into its central subject.

After the book itself garnered criticisms for glorifying partner violence, the film’s stars also made headlines for how they addressed those themes or suspicions of drama on set. Still ...