This week a research scientist was unmasked as blogger Belle de Jour, inspiration for Showtime's Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Olivia Cole on a sex scandal's surprisingly happy ending.
'Tricky Dick' vs. the Pink Lady
The Next 'Twilight'
A new history of MI5 contains revelations straight from the spy agency's files, from bungling the Irish troubles to Hitler's thoughts on Chamberlain.
Copies of Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue, have been floating around newsrooms—what are the biggest bombshells revealed so far?
PEN American Center has written a letter to President Obama asking him to help pressure the Chinese authorities to release a Tiananmen dissident, writer, and activist. Read more about the case.
The Alaska governor’s new memoir will have no index, robbing D.C. insiders of their favorite game: seeing their names in print. Samuel P. Jacobs on the death of the “Washington Read.”
In an excerpt from his new memoir, Redeeming Features, the designer Nicholas Haslam tells about hiding in a closet with the Duchess of Windsor and the wedding of his royal cousin, Princess Diana.
In their new book Flow two authors take on a taboo topic—and target the new pills that suppress periods.





















