In an excerpt from Susan Straight's new novel, a mixed-race slave girl tries to outwit her captors.

Our family friend collected vintage girly mags plus S/M sketches of his girlfriend. Then he died

For some seemingly inexplicable reason, No. 2 is No. 1 with Japanese kids.

"American Movie" director Chris Smith offers a sobering portrait of a social media debacle

If she slept in the heat long enough, maybe she could melt away the baby. If there was a baby.

Forced to quickly alter its postelection episode, "South Park" delivers an empathetic palliative for our pain

Handel says the tweet was "a mistake," as the race for the highly competitive seat heats up

Fighters say the Libyan dictator was trying to flee when NATO helicopters struck his convoy

The song's writer discusses how the track has become a remixed, memed and oddly beloved cultural touchstone

The Internet's embrace of the red-sweatered undecided voter on last Sunday's debate was destined to crash and burn

Procter and Gamble face a viral "Tide Pods" meme that is getting people sick. Is all press good press?

What begins as a chat about their TBS comedy turns into an exploration of fertilizer, Elon Musk, and alienation.

A Vietnam vet warns Bush backers are "playing a dangerous, self-destructive game" by trashing John Kerry's Purple Heart. Plus: Readers respond to P.W. Singer's two-part story, "Outsourcing the War."

Harris has been the victim of a birtherism attack on social media — retweeted and then deleted by Donald Trump Jr.

A number of Native American extras walked off the set of Sandler's new Netflix film "Ridiculous 6"