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The Whiskey Rebels: A Novel By David Liss Random House, 528 pages, $26 In one of his remarkable essays from the mid-1930s, the great German Jewish writer Lion Feuchtwanger wrote:...

Finding Beauty in a Broken World By Terry Tempest Williams Pantheon, 420 pages, $26 Terry Tempest Williams is full to the brim. When she was younger, she wrote books about...

Van Johnson, who soared to stardom during World War II as MGM's boy-next-door in films such as "A Guy Named Joe" and "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo," and became one of...

The economic turmoil buffeting NASCAR widened Thursday as one of the sport's most venerable teams, Petty Enterprises, announced merger talks with the Gillett Evernham Motorsports team. Petty also parted ways...

A suicide bomber set off his explosives Thursday in a crowded restaurant near the northern city of Kirkuk, killing at least 55 people, wounding about 100 and ending what had...

Hooded youths attacked the Athens courthouse with firebombs Wednesday, and a general strike by labor unions shut down most of the country as nationwide urban unrest entered its fifth night....

For the past few weeks, UCLA basketball players have been asking fans to remain patient, to give them more time to jell as a team. This argument apparently makes sense...

For maybe the first time California's Oaks Christian High School -- the training ground for Notre Dame quarterback Jimmy Clausen, among others -- has found itself in a no-win situation....

Copia, the nearly $80-million museum of wine and food started in Napa, Calif., by the late vintner Robert Mondavi, has closed and is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The...

The happy childhood goes like this: The mother unwraps the silver boxes of cream cheese as if they are presents. She beats the soft cheese into pale snowbanks in the...