There's a long history of fighting Nazism with fiction in Scandinavia. But has it really done much to stop far-right movements?

The job of the crossword puzzle maker is to twist the mind of its "solver."

“The city always considered August Wilson its native son. But I think the city considered August its native stepson.”

Each week on The World, we feature a unique selection of music, and every week we put together the highlights for you here.

Hilda Tresz of the Phoenix Zoo specializes in behavioral enrichment. It's not about giving zoo animals toys, she says. It's about giving them some control over their lives.

PRI's Vidal Guzman, who worked on the client relations team, died while on vacation in Puerto Rico with his family. He was 61.

“I was already on a path,” says Cole, “And here was this master, who had actually cleared the road.”

Prayuth Chan-ocha — a former army general who seized power through a coup — has just released his fourth pop song. Like the others, it is a pure dose of saccharine nationalism.

A new book tells the story of the treacherous scientific expedition that re-discovered a lost civilization.

Hacker, hackathon, lifehack, lacktavist — hack seems to be the word du jour these days. How did it get that way?