This “huge” fan of the writer (and of Nicolas Cage) says he “pretty much hated” “The Passenger” and “Stella Maris.” His own ...

All the pretty balloons reminds me of the title of Cormac McCarthy’s book, “All the Pretty Horses.” Going to the Hot Air Balloon Festival in Indianola was never a bucket list item, but when Ginnie and ...

Vice President JD Vance revealed some behind-the-scenes details about how he keeps his marriage and family life together ...

On Aug. 14, 1940, the Pennsylvania Turnpike officially opened, a 160-mile road running between Carlisle and Irwin. It marked the first long-distance, limited-access highway in the U.S. Today is the ...

OpenAI’s new flagship AI model, GPT-5, crushes coding tests and complex logic, but lags behind rivals like Claude in creative ...

Western fiction is an American genre. Taking place on the American frontier, in the late 1800s to early 1900s, these stories feature cowboys, outlaws and settlers as main characters.

Their bodies sleep nearby, and that brings me to my primal fear. Stumbling onto a corpse. In our photo-journalism adventures, Robert Clark and I go to remote places frequented by mosquitoes, ticks, ...

“The Feeling of Iron,” by Giaime Alonge, follows two Holocaust survivors on a quest for revenge. Lea Carpenter is a novelist, ...

This 2007 neo-western thriller, based on a novel of the same name, shook Noah Hawley to his core and is one of the best of ...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.“When Paul Morphy plays seven games of chess at once and blindfold, ...

These dark academia books dive deep into obsession, intellect, and eerie mysteries. Haunting, thought-provoking, and ...