In middle school, I invented an elaborate fiction about my childhood in Hawaii. One problem: Everyone believed it

Am I still "D. Watkins from East Baltimore" if my daughter won't play in the same streets I used to run?

Inexperienced climbers are flocking to the mountain in record numbers as locals struggle to ensure their safety

On the eve of its 45th anniversary, Jan Morris recalls the first ascent of Mount Everest -- an innocent expedition that embodied a different age, and that changed the lives of its participants forever.

Vince Passaro on Cormac McCarthy's 'Cities of the Plain,' conclusion to the trilogy of novels that began with National Book Award winner, 'All the Pretty Horses'

In Mondo Weirdo, Wanderlust readers describe their most memorable adventures -- and misadventures. This week's featured subjects:Three American siblings venture into rural Switzerland in search of their roots -- and find a moving mystery instead.

The true story of a Polish countess turned courier and resistance fighter is better than any James Bond novel

As we plowed through decades of her extreme clutter, I began to notice similar tendencies in my husband

Sharon G. Boddy describes an idyllic visit to Hay-on-Wye, Wales, better known as 'The Town of Books.'

The QAnon movement is now being used by some charismatic Christians as a way to interpret the Bible

My boyfriend wants me to live with him in a tiny town in Maine. I'll go crazy there with him, but I'll go crazy here without him.

I entered Syria to find the family of the Arab sheikh who'd saved my grandfather's life. First, get by the guards

We'll be two to three times more likely to see large fires in 2050