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

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

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

Such conditions resulted in a pileup on Interstate 70 last week in western Kansas involving dozens of cars and trucks that ...

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

Echoes of the Past Dalhart, Texas, stands as a beacon of history from the Dust Bowl era, offering visitors a unique glimpse ...

Sometimes words fall hopelessly short. This might explain the silences between the two botanists as their vehicle crunches ...

The Dust Bowl, arising from a combination of prolonged drought, heavy winds, and over farming leading to fruitless farmland, and skies blotted out by red and brown dust.

Hazy or dust-darkened skies have recalled the “Dust Bowl” of the 1930s, when millions of tons of blowing soil buried farms and coated towns across the Great Plains. Lesser storms occur every ...

Learn about the Dust Bowl, and what people lost and did to survive during a “Living Voices: Journey From the Dust” presentation by the Lynnwood-Alderwood Manor Heritage Association from ...

The bestselling author of "Swamplandia!" and "Vampires in the Lemon Grove" returns with a Nebraska Dust Bowl-era tale of a ...