The Booker winner on his new novel, Vigil, about the implications of comforting bad people; why he tries to understand the US ...

Ursula K. Le Guin’s life was full of cats. There were Anon, Tickie, Nero, Figaro, Piffle, Gaspar, Tom, Tabby, Laurel, Hardy, Neko, Leonard, Philip, Miss Moppet, Lorenzo (a.k.a. Bonzo), Zorro and ...

In June 1951, a man really did jump into the La Brea Tar Pits in an attempt to rescue a dog. This alleged photo of him is miscaptioned.

Videos analyzed by The New York Times appear to contradict federal accounts of the shooting. The man, an I.C.U. nurse, was an ...