“I want to tell you about the night I got hit by a train and died.” So begins the latest selection of stories from Laura van den Berg, and it’s a grabber of an opening, certainly. Yet the next line ...

I’ve struggled with uncomfortable, unsightly and unhygienic earwax buildup my whole life, but after I stopped using cotton swabs like Q-tips to clean them — they can cut ear canals or perforate ...

In her new collection, “I Hold a Wolf by the Ears” (out July 28), author Laura van den Berg offers a series of eerie, unsettling shorts that seem to be founded on an arresting premise: that the way ...

When walking down a dark street, it’s common to get a sense that one is being followed. It pays to check, of course, but what if we could get better data than simply a vague feeling from the unknown? ...

I hold a wolf by the ears. Nor do I know by what means I can get rid of him, nor how I am to keep him.—Terence Most U.S. industries last week had a price wolf by the ears. For the cement industry, a ...

David Canfield is a former staff editor at Entertainment Weekly. He left EW in 2022. Not that readers were complaining. Van den Berg found a larger audience with The Third Hotel, particularly, which ...

Was it a wolf, some type of hybrid, or a creature that hasn't been seen in Montana since the Ice Age? On May 16 a lone wolf-like animal was shot and killed on a ranch outside Denton. With long grayish ...