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 ...

No one summons up the "old weird America" in fiction like Karen Russell does. Her tall tales of alligator wrestlers in Florida, homesteaders on the Gothic Great Plains and female prospectors ...

The Antidote is set in a Dust Bowl-era Nebraska town called "Uz," but it also reaches back to the earlier pioneer era Russell evoked in her short story masterpiece, "Proving Up," which was made ...

While that novel chronicled the decline of a Floridian carnival family clinging to family legend and land, her new novel, “The Antidote,” looks westward to the fictional Nebraska town of Uz ...

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 ...