The bestselling author of "Swamplandia!" and "Vampires in the Lemon Grove" returns with a Nebraska Dust Bowl-era tale of a ...

Clay Risen examines Cold War hysteria in an even-handed way, trusting readers to make the connection between McCarthyism and ...

Front-month gold settled up 0.9% to $2,939.10 a troy ounce, making it the sixth session out of the past eight that front-month gold closed with a positive finish.

NPR's Scott Simon asks Karen Russell about her new book, "The Antidote." It's an eerie novel set in the era of Dustbowl droughts.

Early in Portlander Karen Russell’s latest novel, The Antidote, its titular witch is trying on names. Rather than cast spells ...

In more than a dozen books, he created characters who were obsessed with maps, urban walking, sexual fetishes and Volkswagen Beetles. By Trip Gabriel Geoff Nicholson, whose darkly comic literary ...

For about half the people alive today, the story of where they came from just became clearer. For centuries, historians and linguists have been searching for the cradle of the Indo-Europeans, an ...

Care and Feeding chronicles life in the culinary world. All the Other Mothers Hate Me follows a mom turned amateur detective.

Ja'Kobe Walter suffered a right quad strain and has been ruled out for the remainder of Friday’s game against the Utah Jazz. Walter scored 14 points with five rebounds and two assists in 18:17 ...

By Dwight Garner How the Movies Made Joan Didion a Great American Writer A new book by Alissa Wilkinson argues that the iconic writer’s imagination and signature style were profoundly shaped by ...

A jewelled medieval bishop’s ring that was discovered in a muddy field by a metal detectorist is estimated to fetch more than ...