Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel ...

The Antidote weaves together stories of everyday people who are making the intentional choice to lift others up in powerful ways taking action in the face of fundamentally unkind realities that ...

By contrast with the sleek subterfuge depicted in spy movie Black Bag, real-world espionage in the Putin era — as shown by sobering documentary Antidote — is a grubby, blunt-force affair. The film ...

This event, which took on the name Black Sunday, forms a recognizable jumping-off point for Portland author Karen Russell’s new novel “The Antidote” (out March 11 from Knopf). Russell is a ...