Mount Rushmore, originally known as Six Grandfathers, gets its own biography, plus Sarah Bond on museums’ approach to polychromy and whiteness.

In “Biography of a Mountain,” author Matthew Davis deftly weaves together interviews and stories that reveal so much more than a linear narrative of the monument’s history.

Next year marks the 100th anniversary of the first drilling at Mount Rushmore, the iconic American landmark in South Dakota.

To those readers who prize "relatability," Catherine Lacey's latest novel may as well come wrapped in a barbed wire book jacket. There is almost nothing about Biography of X, as this novel is called, ...

Think you know the full and complete story about George Washington, Steve Jobs, or Joan of Arc? Think again.

Livingstone emphasizes in the book Cardinal Pell’s resilience in the face of adversity and how his unwavering faith served as a source of strength throughout his trials. Author Tess Livingstone (r) ...

The feminist thinker is celebrated as a prophet of empowerment and self-care. A new biography shows how she saw our future even more keenly. Lorde in 1983.Credit...Jack Mitchell/Getty Images Supported ...

She was surely the oddest Catholic author who ever lived. She went about London with her face powdered dead white, in vivid contrast to her natural carrot-colored hair, chopped off in front just above ...

Ellmann’s Joyce: The Biography of a Masterpiece and Its Maker, by Zachary Leader (Belknap Press, 464 pp., $35) Literary biography as a genre has sometimes suffered a lack of respect. Writers ...