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Her Thoreau-like account of journeys in the woods, published when she was 28, was the first of many ruminations on life and nature, good and evil.

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by Rebecca King   Each night, she tells him a story, and each night, before kissing her forehead and rolling over into sleep, he tells her he just might kill her in the morning. She lies awake…

by Robert Earle He discovered that on the west edge of town a mountain rose above a lake, and on the side of the mountain a cantilevered tier of stone terraces was wedged into the walls of a gorge …

by Tina Barry After, rivers swirled black, trees pulled from their roots, tipped to the ground. Falling asleep that evening, a mouse walked on my pillow and ruffled my hair. It paused, then scuttle…

With about four months still to go until the midterm elections, the Trump administration remains largely unchecked by Congress in its exercises and abuses

WASHINGTON—Drawing intense scrutiny for what opponents have characterized as misuse of agency resources, FBI director Kash Patel came under fire Tuesday for using an FBI jet to blow-dry his hair. “On ...

Hollywood tells us disability is a tragedy to overcome or a lesson to inspire. It's neither. This film is a raw and honest ten-year reckoning with what it actually takes to rebuild an identity after a...

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The world as we know it is ending, and I am in a bathroom in Terminal 1 at Chicago O’Hare, huddled in a corner by the hand dryers, hugging my sobbing,

Connected stories make up much of this wonderfully gnarly collection, Josefowicz’s third book of fiction, yet each of the offerings stands (and sings) alone, too. Many of these eleven tales include…

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AMY STUBER <br> But he could have been. My father was a similar man. And his name was Richard Cheney, though he never went by Dick, and he never lived at the Naval Observatory. He was an orthopedic su...

Hustling She is ten and obsessed with porn. Been around it her whole life. Her uncle, who still lives with her grandmother, has stacks of it under his bed. And he wallpapers the back of his many fish ...

An SNL sketch pitched the next big true-crime hit: what happens when men are left to fend for themselves.

Night One The noises are small, faint scratches and scrapes. We lie in bed and look at the ceiling, drowsy, unconcerned. Rats in the walls, you say. Maybe a squirrel. I think it’s the ceiling, not the...