A brutal heat wave across the eastern United States trapped millions of people in sweltering air this week with record-high ...

This may seem unbelievable, but in the course of creating this map, I filled my house with 1,001 books. Some are from the 19th century, with cloth bindings; some were published last month.

Map of US claims to show areas most at risk of being targeted in nuclear war. New York, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington, DC highlighted on map . Gustaf Kilander.

Over the last five years, I’ve read or reread 1,001 books of fiction in my project to create a literary map of this country. The idea for this “library of America” was born in 2016, when the ...