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A recent salmonella outbreak, connected with pre-cut melon, has put the bacteria back in the news. Is there any bright side to salmonella?

An interview with author Jordy Rosenberg about his mesmerizing novel, Confessions of the Fox.

For decades kids across the world played with marbles, creating their own games and slang. So why did such a popular game go suddenly extinct?

Seagrass meadows are habitats for a variety of marine life, and a vital link between land and sea. But these crucial plants are increasingly under threat.

This groundbreaking film was the first movie to be written, directed, co-produced, and acted by Native Americans.

Although witch hunts are associated with seventeenth-century Salem, tens of thousands of “witches” were killed in Europe from the thirteenth century on.

Suffragist Alice Paul proposed the ERA in 1923. Congress approved it in the 1970s. So why isn't the amendment part of the Constitution?

In 1906, Russian Bolshevik writer Maxim Gorky was given a warm welcome in the United States. Then the American media manufactured a scandal about his girlfriend.

Stories by Meg Wolitzer, David Sedaris, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, E. Annie Proulx, Amy Tan, Donna Tartt, Lydia Millet, Lauren Groff, and more.