Search results for

In Crooked, novelist Austin Grossman excuses Richard Nixon's rocky political career in the weirdest ways possible — by reimagining the former president as a warrior against supernatural forces.

It's been 50 years since Bob Dylan strolled on stage at the Newport Folk Festival, plugged in an electric guitar, and infuriated his flock. Historian Elijah Wald says there's much more to the story.

Phantasmagoria "Wicked Little Tales”. The troupe of storytellers, dancers, and chorus perform tales of terror from authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Lewis…

Michael Horowitz protests the Justice Department legal opinion that says DOJ officials decide what material he should get, and when.

Julia Pierpont's debut novel opens with a young girl's discovery of her father's infidelity. Maureen Corrigan says that what follows is so unexpected and tense that it's a "fresh pleasure to read."

This second volume in Edward Carey's Iremonger Trilogy leaves the forbidding Heap House behind to explore a strange alternate London where people can turn into objects — and objects into people.

Researchers say they've come up with a 30-minute test that can predict a child's language skill and diagnose learning disabilities.

Nearly 15 years after his story collection was published in Spanish, Juan Gabriel Vásquez's Lovers on All Saints' Day has gotten an English translation. He explains the book's patchwork provenance.

Families paid tens of thousands of dollars for signs that a missing friend or relative was alive in Syria's vast prison system. But smuggled photos reveal many of those loved ones were already dead.

Laurie Foos' gently surreal new novel is set in a small lakeside town where the local mothers bake their secret confessions into moon pies, which they feed to a silent, mysterious blue-skinned girl.