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This autobiographical novel about a South Korean girl who moves from the countryside to the city in search of work and education blurs the line between fiction and reality.

So you think you know a lot about world affairs? Like, um, what kind of animal did that American dentist shoot? See how you do on the annual Interschool quiz for South Africa's youth.

It's all part of the crazy, creative campaign to get people to pay attention to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals that the United Nations will endorse this coming week.

The columnist could write like an angel — and bite like an asp. In a new biography, John Norris recounts McGrory's first big break and the proposition she received from a Democratic president.

Lasker Award recipients include the medical aid group that was on the frontline fighting Ebola from day 1. Dr. Deane Marchbein shares her mixed feelings about the honor.

This year's prizes honored, among others, the brave researcher who subjected himself to 200 bee stings to determine where it was most painful.

If you watch football this weekend, you'll see lots of ads for daily fantasy sports websites. They let fans to bet real money on the performance of players, but aren't considered gambling operations.

The novelist and journalist are just two of the 40 nominees, across four categories, for the renowned literary prize. The fiction longlist rolled out Thursday morning, capping a week of nominations.

Author and screenwriter Richard Russo has selected our third book — a new novel by Lauren Groff. Fates and Furies chronicles a marriage over 24 years. Russo calls it "an incredibly ambitious work."

The new book by surgeon Dana Suskind, Thirty Million Words: Building A Child's Brain, explores the importance of constantly talking to our kids, even when they're too young to talk back.