Search results for

After a week spent searching for and wondering about the missing plane, author Alan Heathcock revisits the young adult novel Hatchet, and Jonathan Evison suggests Songs for the Missing.

Two new biographical studies that read like novels explore the familial relationships that shaped two of the 19th century's most beloved authors. Critic Maureen Corrigan calls Great Expectations: The Sons And Daughters Of Charles Dickens "a Gothic nightmare" and Marmee & Louisa "a romance."

After Harper Lee wrote To Kill A Mockingbird, she became a recluse and lived with her sister, Alice, in Alabama. Reporter Marja Mills uses rich detail to provides glimpses into their twilight years.

Explaining the draw of gawking at massive bears, a park ranger says, "You can follow the bears for years and really get to know their lives and their personalities and their soap operas."

Tunisia's interim leaders announced a new national unity government following the ouster of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali amid massive street protests. Several top ministers retained their posts and at least one top opposition leader was expected to join the government.

A full-blown congressional debate on the expiring 2001 and 2003 tax cuts will unfold this fall, but some lawmakers have already weighed in on the most controversial issue: whether it makes sense, at a time of huge budget deficits, to extend tax relief for those earning more than $250,000.

The country's spiraling unemployment rate continues to take a particular toll on men. The "he-cession," as it's sometimes called, has hit African-American men especially hard, increasing their unemployment rate to more than 17 percent last month.

President Obama's troop increase in Afghanistan is being closely watched by many Americans, though pollsters have detected a strong isolationist sentiment, with nearly half of all Americans saying the United States should "mind its own business."

Eliska and Welmon Barriere are among the roughly 6 million blacks who migrated north during the 20th century. They left New Orleans in 1962 for Milwaukee, where they raised a family. But they moved to Georgia in the 1990s, part of a trend of blacks going back to the South.

A company of the 101st Airborne Division in Panjwaii tries to cut Taliban supply lines and win the support of locals. It offers a focused look at the overall U.S. war strategy in Afghanistan. Watching closely are the Taliban -- and the top ranks of the U.S. military command.