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Seated portrait of author Charles Baxter

A blood test to predict behavior? This novel finds humor in that scary premise

Acclaimed author Charles Baxter takes on America’s absurdities, aided by technology, in his new novel “Blood Test.”

Oct. 14, 2024
Painting by Hieronymus Bosch, "The Garden of Earthly Delights", in the Museum de Prado, Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain (Photo by: Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

What happens when humans confront a form of nature with no rational order?

Oct. 12, 2024
Comic artist Adrian Tomine's self-portrait

The cartoonist’s way — comics master Adrian Tomine draws insights on the creative process

Oct. 9, 2024
This photo made available by the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia shows students at a Presbyterian boarding school in Sitka, Alaska in the summer of 1883. U.S. Catholic and Protestant denominations operated more than 150 boarding schools between the 19th and 20th centuries. Native American and Alaskan Native children were regularly severed from their tribal families, customs, language and religion and brought to the schools in a push to assimilate and Christianize them. (Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia via AP)

A book that revealed the ‘entire story’ of Indian boarding schools would be important. This isn’t it.

Oct. 7, 2024
John Edgar Wideman, author of "Slaveroad."

On a metaphorical ‘slaveroad,’ the pain and the growth are quite real

Oct. 5, 2024

A history of Yellowstone finds centuries of conflict behind the natural beauty

Oct. 4, 2024

There’s potential for nature and redemption tucked into ‘empty’ spaces

Oct. 2, 2024

10 books to add to your reading list in October

Oct. 1, 2024

Opinion: Why Americans love scary stories — none of them scarier than our own

Sept. 28, 2024
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