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Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" won the Man Booker Prize last year and has critics raving. It's a fresh, smart take on King Henry VIII's reign, told via a brilliant character study of his advisor, Thomas Cromwell.

To avoid the crowds at Niagara Falls, why not sail the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or ogle oil refineries in Port Arthur, Texas? In Visit Sunny Chernobyl: And Other Adventures In The World's Most Polluted Places, Andrew Blackwell describes traveling to the world's most contaminated destinations.

Kurt Russell Does The Duke

A mile-deep mine in South Dakota was closed a decade ago. Now, it's been cleaned up and revamped as an underground science laboratory. Scientists hope the experiments thousands of feet underground will help prove the existence of dark matter.

In December, Congress is poised for another showdown on the deficit and taxes, in what is now being called the fiscal cliff. In his new book Red Ink, David Wessel explains how the federal budget got to the point where it is today — and where to go from here.

Wall Street Journal economics writer David Wessel's new book, Red Ink, lays out in unsparing terms the way the U.S. government spends money, who pays what in taxes, and why politicians can't seem to agree on ways to reduce the potentially catastrophic deficit.

Homeless people have limited access to the CalFresh Program, formally known as Food Stamps, but now a mobile food truck operator is signing them up.

Robert Siegel talks with Aaron David Miller, a Middle East Policy expert and a distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. They discuss President Obama and possible problems with Israeli relations.

For several years California authorities have threatened to close state parks because of budget cuts, and park supporters have frantically raised money to keep them open. But news came out on Friday that the ostensibly-broke parks system has for years been sitting on a multimillion dollar surplus.

Live music, art documentaries, poolside movies and a neighborhood street fair: hurray for the weekend!