The author is not the first scholar to tackle the history of America—as in the American continent, not just the United States ...

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A fantastical new novel from Karen Russell turns the whispered secrets of a Dust Bowl town into a bold metaphor for repressed ...

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A leaked preliminary assessment from the Defense Intelligence Agency on June 24 said that the damage was minimal. Whom to ...

At night, she worked on her novels. By day, as an editor at Random House, she championed a new generation of writers.

America has more great-grandparents than ever. It also has a new caretaking challenge.

A new book charts how the discipline transcended humble origins and turned into something more ambitious, and more conflicted ...

The contours of World War III are visible in numerous conflicts. The president of the United States is not ready.

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The president does what his predecessors would not.