Dust storms have been wreaking havoc across the country, and the mix of climate change and lax environmental regulations mean ...

In 1929, Amelia Perry was born in Haskell County; just one year later, the nation would be hit with an agricultural and ...

Russell says she had been thinking about ”fantasy for sale,” as it relates to versions of the American dream, and about the ...

I was born in what’s now the center — what was considered the center of the Panhandle, the Dust Bowl. I feel like that just being raised in that time period, I have a good history to remember.

Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel ...

The end of winter and the beginning of spring always seem to be accompanied by winds that blow for days and weeks on end.

Karen Russell’s “The Antidote,” her first novel since Pulitzer Prize finalist “Swamplandia,” does not make it easy on ...

Russell’s Uz is a desolate, ravaged Dust Bowl town where farmers have lost their crops and residents have perished thanks to extreme weather. A string of murdered women adds to the paranoia ...

This famous photo of a father and his sons during the Dust Bowl was taken in Oklahoma by Arthur Rothstein. (Arthur Rothstein/Farm Security Adminstration) ...

This is partly a factor of the Dust Bowl-era novel’s structure, which is divided into chapters narrated by about 10 characters (including a scarecrow and, in one chapter, a cat). Their voices ...