Millions experience sleep paralysis each year a state between dreaming and waking where the body is frozen, and the mind is wide awake. Some see shadowy figures or feel a presence in the room. This ...

In George Bernard Shaw’s 1894 satire “Arms and the Man,” romantic notions of soldiering smack into the violent reality of combat. And the same goes for romance itself, where idealized, good-on-paper ...

The Oklahoma Board of Education on Thursday unanimously suspended the teaching license for a man accused of killing a pair of hikers at Devil's Den State Park in July. His other teaching licenses are ...

Beyond his life as Spider-Man, Peter is struggling to adjust to college. While he sleeps through his science and math classes (literally and figuratively) he’s earned the ire of his German language ...

The new documentary Ozzy: No Escape From Now shows the (extra)ordinary man behind the "Prince of Darkness" moniker that has been bestowed upon him for so long. It also highlights the many career ...

Shadow Ticket starts with a bang. “The explosion when it comes seems to be from somewhere across the river and nearer the Lake,” Thomas Pynchon writes. “Nobody seems surprised.” In language and ...

Thomas Pynchon’s “Shadow Ticket” is his third consecutive novel to center on a private investigator. Like “Inherent Vice” (2009) and “Bleeding Edge” (2013), it has an evocative if incidental two-word ...

That in this his 88th year Thomas Pynchon has published another novel, set in Milwaukee, of all places, packed full of punny names per usual, featuring a lug of a detective, like the bruiser ...

With next week’s publication of his ninth novel, “Shadow Ticket,” Thomas Pynchon’s secret 20th century is at last complete. For many of us, Pynchon is the best American writer since F. Scott ...