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Award-winning novelist Robert Stone hung out for many years with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters. He recounts the group's cross-country road trips and experiences taking hallucinogenic drugs in his memoir, Prime Green.

Years after leaving his home in northern India, journalist Siddhartha Deb returned to explore the true impact of globalization on his homeland. In The Beautiful and the Damned, Deb exposes the darker side of Indian prosperity.

GOP infighting is stymying any agreement to even temporarily fund the federal government after September 30th, and Congress now has fewer days to act.

The two candidates in Argentina's Presidential runoff are almost neck and neck in an election where the economic crisis dominates the race.

In a reversal that brought him back in a matter of days, the OpenAI co-founder joins a club of CEOs who return after leaving the company they founded.

The day after Thanksgiving may be best known as Black Friday, but for the central Kenai Peninsula, that day represents the much anticipated Christmas Comes to Kenai celebration. The annual community-building event draws bigger crowds each year.

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud of Saudi Arabia has died. He was born before Saudi Arabia was even a country. David Greene talks to journalist and author Thomas Lippman about the king's death.

The World Health Organization has asked China to provide data on a spike in pneumonia and bacterial lung infections in children there.

For years, scarce copies of Laura London's 1984 romance The Windflower were treasured by readers. Reviewer Sarah Wendell hails its reissue and explains the concept of "Good Book Noise."

Kate Mosse's new gothic thriller uses the concept of taxidermy as a clever skeleton on which to hang its scares. It's a dark and tangled tale that's definitely not for the squeamish.