In 'Atavists,' Lydia Millet's latest collection of short stories, Southern California denizens grapple with an endangered globe and base social media impulses.

A portrait of life at a fast-food restaurant shows that there’s both dignity and drudgery in all kinds of labor.

UN Special Envoy Huang Xia called for greater coordination of efforts to resolve the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on Wednesday amid escalating violence by the M23 rebel group and a ...