NEW YORK (AP) — From her house up high in Colorado’s Elk Mountains, author Shelley Read can only look out in amazement at the worldwide success of her debut novel, “Go as a River.” ...

Our society has become suspicious. Mistrusting. Afraid. We no longer trust our neighbors or even the people with whom we worship on Sunday.

Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard is best known for the six-volume series, My Struggle, which Toronto critic Ian Brown said was not really fiction, but a chronicle of Knausgaard’s own life, showing ...

For Jaromir Cervenka, the Hermes boat anchored in Prague and accommodating the Czech capital's homeless has become more than ...

Mayor Mamdani said Friday he still will only force homeless New Yorkers off the streets “as a last resort” — even as his office revealed 13 people have now died outdoors.

Kirsty Coventry, the multi-Olympic swimming champion who last year became the first woman to lead the International Olympic ...

Catherine O’Hara died at her home in Los Angeles “following a brief illness,” according to a statement from her agency.

The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics begin in one week, and the United Nations and organizers are calling for a 7-week pause of all wars worldwide — as they do every time the Olympics take place.

Religious leaders and interfaith advocates from across the state are sounding the alarm on a bill aimed at protecting religious freedom and expression in Florida public schools, arguing ...

Some unsheltered New Yorkers say they prefer the freedom of the streets. Others say they have not been asked in.

Claude Brown, 52, has been homeless for “a long while” — and even sleeping on the sidewalk across from City Hall hasn’t ...

The School of Night is a haunting, meticulous masterpiece that confirms the writer status as a major literary force.