Friedrich Nietzsche’s book Thus Spake Zarathustra begins with the protagonist, none other than Zarathustra himself, waking up one morning and realizing that 10 years of meditation have given him a ...

Who was Nietzsche? Philosopher, psychologist, poet, madman, provocateur—these names orbit around him but never settle. He is the “strange German,” dismissed by some as the father of nihilism and ...

Francis Crick missed a crucial seminar in 1951, probably because he was seeing a lover. James Watson did go, failed to take notes and misremembered key details. As a result, their first model of DNA ...

The causes of Friedrich Nietzsche’s mental breakdown in early 1889 and of the subsequent slow decay to end-stage dementia along ten years will possibly remain open to debate. The diagnosis of ...

“Few men in modern times can have hated all the Nazis stand for as Nietzsche did,” the Manchester Guardian writes in an editorial article. “He was exasperated intolerably by the importunities of his ...

Gwyneth Paltrow is ready to talk about "Gwyneth." The Oscar winner told British Vogue in an interview that she has yet to read the biography, released in July by culture and fashion journalist Amy ...

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and ...

Steve Jobs wasn’t simply a technology entrepreneur; he was a man who revolutionized the world in how people use technology. Steve Jobs went from building computers in his garage to creating ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Amy Odell’s forthcoming biography “Gwyneth” promises an ...

Omer had never been strictly religious. Like many secular Israelis, faith was a distant concept. He had completed his military service and was waiting tables to save for a post-army trip to South ...