Casual or distracted listening, like playing an audiobook while doing chores, doesn’t appear to engage those networks fully.

In fiction, fame usually signals that we’re dealing with a classic “be careful what you wish for” narrative. What happens after your dream comes true, and you still have to go on being a person ...

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A mother and son have been charged in connection with the murder of Detroit teen London Thomas. Police may have found a new serial killer Republicans are ridiculing ‘No Kings.’ A striking new poll ...

The good news about Shadow Ticket—the new Thomas Pynchon novel and his first in 12 years—is that it’s one of his private-eye stories. Fictional gumshoes make ideal Pynchon protagonists, guys not in it ...

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 ...

Decades before Charles Manson’s followers spread terror in Los Angeles and Jim Jones orchestrated mass suicide in Guyana, a bearded mystic named Thomas Lake Harris ...

The writer Michael Thomas recounts his struggles, successes and fraught family history in mesmerizing detail. By Thomas Chatterton Williams Thomas Chatterton Williams is a staff writer at The Atlantic ...

With Isaiah Jackson's re-signing the Pacers now have 15 players on standard contracts. Thomas Bryant and James Johnson Jr. are not among them. INDIANAPOLIS – For the moment at least, center and former ...

INDIANAPOLIS – For the moment at least, center and former IU star Thomas Bryant and veteran forward James Johnson Jr. appear to be the odd men out in the Indiana Pacers' roster re-shuffle following ...

Barbara Holdridge with poetry albums from the early recording days of Caedmon Records - Marvin Joseph/The Washington Post via Getty Images Barbara Holdridge, the audiobook pioneer who has died aged 95 ...

The producer remembers that era in show business with a salty charm, like all the best insiders. The requirements to be a secretary in the days of the William Morris Agency, where she got her start?