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 ...

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Something that pushes humanity to be empathetic and kind. Empathy comes from knowing someone, and that’s the antidote to fear. The more you know somebody, the less you fear them. I think about ...

Recently published national consensus guidelines recommend that hospitals providing emergency care routinely stock 24 antidotes for a wide range of toxicities, including toxic-alcohol poisoning ...

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 famous photo of a father and his sons during the Dust Bowl was taken in Oklahoma by Arthur Rothstein. (Arthur Rothstein/Farm Security Adminstration) ...

Every Friday, A.V. Club staffers kick off the weekend by taking a look at the world of gaming, diving in to the ideas that underpin the hobby we love with a bit of Game Theory. We’ll sound off ...

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 into ...

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 ...