Jessica Mitford, the muckraking reporter who lambasted the hypocrisy of the funeral industry, died in 1996. A cultural luminary in the Bay Area, she was known for her outspokenness and humor. Now, ...

Carla Kaplan’s biography “Troublemaker” focuses on the fierce political commitments of the journalist best known for “The ...

Attorney Robert Treuhaft, a pivotal figure in the Bay Area civil rights movement since the 1940s, died in New York City yesterday after a brief illness. He was 89. Mr. Treuhaft, husband of the late ...

Although it is not uncommon for big families to produce a rebel or two along with the chip-off-the-old-block offspring, there are few that can lay claim to as much dissension within the ranks as the ...

Hurst has acquired Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford by award-winning author and academic Carla Kaplan, a “riveting new biography of the fifth and most radical of the famous ...

Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Berkeley, Calif. The wonderful thing about books of letters is that one can see the letter writers’ views on the fly, at ...

Perhaps the least scandalous of then Mitford sisters, Deborah (or “Debo”) would grow up to become the Duchess of Devonshire and the chatelaine of Chatsworth House, which she managed to change from ...

Occasionally a small group of previously unremarkable people erupt and conquer the world: the Macedonians, the Romans, the British, the Japanese, the Brontë sisters. The Mitford family in the early ...