Gish Jen has always had something of a "Frank Capra-esque" view of America. Like Capra, who directed immortal Hollywood films like Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and It's a Wonderful Life, Jen's big ...

President Warren G. Harding once urged the American people to "strive for production as Babe Ruth strives for home runs." In Gish Jen's inventive but muddled dystopian novel The Resisters, production ...

Speculative fiction is having a day. Readers are diving into the horrors of our current moment through literature with a fantastical gaze from authors such as Margaret Atwood and Ta-Nehisi Coates.

2023 marked the 100th anniversary of the country's oldest secular pacifist organization, the War Resisters League. Also, a new film opened in November about Bayard Rustin, who organized the 1963 Great ...

Historians who hail the heroes of World War II typically focus on soldiers storming the beaches of Normandy or Allied troops liberating concentration camps. Rarely remembered are the networks of quiet ...

Recently, my friend Sarah found out she was pre-diabetic. Though in the early stages, she took it upon herself to completely change her food and lifestyle choices. She cut back on sugar and complex ...

The food is very good, much better than the food that I paid for at the University of Chicago. The beds are clean, and you are given a change of linen once a week. You can change your underwear and ...

NELSON, British Columbia, Nov. 19, 2005 — -- Nestled in the mountains of British Columbia, the tiny city of Nelson seems lost in time -- but amid the organic food, marijuana and easygoing ...