"I'm oil-field trash," the young man told his wife—but he was a good deal more than that.

Steven Millhauser's tales chart a tight orbit around the kernel where art and the actual overlap.

Mars in the science-fiction imagination.

Stanley Fish argues that advocacy has no place in the classroom. Is he right?

Preparing teenagers to cope with the "hookup culture" when they go away to college.

The latest book from Norwegian mystery novelist Karin Fossum centers on the disappearance of a nine-year-old girl.