Stephen and Evie McGee Colbert have been married since 1993. Eric Wolfinger/Celadon Books hide caption
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Werner Herzog says it's not good to circle 'your own navel' but wrote a memoir anyway
Stay away from Dr. Google, and other lessons learned about hypochondria
Kash Patel speaks before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally at Thomas & Mack Center, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, in Las Vegas. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption
What Trump's pick of Kash Patel to lead the FBI could mean for the bureau
Stephen Colbert and Evie Colbert arrive for the 74th Emmy Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 13: Ina Garten signs cookbooks during Food Network's 25th Birthday Party Celebration at the 11th annual New York City Wine & Food Festival in 2018 in New York City. Amy Sussman/Getty Images for Food Network hide caption
German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) and US President Donald Trump speak during a bilateral meeting at the G7 Summit in 2019. Trump is one of four U.S. Presidents Merkel worked with during her time as Germany's Chancellor. NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A file photo from April 30, 2014, shows then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel attending the parliamentary election campaign program for Hesse State, at the Frankfurt's Kap European Congress Center in Frankfurt, Germany. Mehmet Kaman/Anadolu hide caption
Bailey Williams is a storyteller and yoga teacher in Alaska. Abrams Books hide caption
'I think of my body as a teacher,' says Marine who struggled with disordered eating
Former President Bill Clinton, founder and chair of the Clinton Foundation, speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative on Monday, Sept. 23, 2024, in New York. Andres Kudacki/AP/FR170905 AP hide caption
Bill Clinton, who left office in 2001, has a new memoir on life after being president (extended interview)
Chef and TV host Prue Leith shares tasty and easy-to-make recipes in her new cookbook, Life's Too Short to Stuff A Mushroom — along with dozens of cooking hacks from her 65-year culinary career. Ant Duncan/Carnival Publishing hide caption
Gevinson attends the front row for Rodarte during NYFW: The Show on September 11, 2021 in New York City. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images hide caption
Artistic renditions of a future Mars settlement often feature structures above ground, as seen above. But after extensive research, authors Kelly and Zach Weinersmith found that any potential settlement would have to be below ground. janiecbros/Getty Images hide caption
Humans on Mars? Here's why you shouldn't plan a space move anytime soon
The City and Its Uncertain Walls is Murakami's first novel since Killing Commandatore. Alvaro Barrientos/AP hide caption
Brothers Alex (top) and Eddie Van Halen in an undated photo. HarperCollins hide caption
Undone by the loss of his brother Eddie, Alex Van Halen looks back in a new memoir
Eliza Griswold writes for The New Yorker and teaches at Princeton University. Her book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. Seamus Murphy/Macmillan hide caption
How culture wars divided one small progressive church in Philadelphia
"I'm not haunted by him, even in the most benign sense," Nick Harkaway says of his father, John le Carré. "I grieve occasionally. That doesn't go away. It just gets manageable." Nadav Kander/Penguin Random House hide caption
After John le Carré's death, his son had the 'daunting' task to revive George Smiley
Journalist Rebecca Nagle poses next to her new book, By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land Photo credit: Brittany Bendabout hide caption