Karen Russell's Dust Bowl novel effortlessly weaves in characters including a prairie witch that is the keeper of the town's ...

Karen Russell’s “The Antidote,” her first novel since Pulitzer Prize finalist “Swamplandia,” does not make it easy on ...

Russell’s first novel since “Swamplandia!” takes place on a vast historical canvas and is shot through with elements of magic ...

No one summons up the "old weird America" in fiction like Karen Russell does. Her tall tales of alligator wrestlers in Florida, homesteaders on the Gothic Great Plains and female prospectors ...

The bestselling author of "Swamplandia!" and "Vampires in the Lemon Grove" returns with a Nebraska Dust Bowl-era tale of a prairie witch, who stores the memories that townsfolk don't want to carry.

But reading The Antidote, which does not hit like a book for grown-ups, I was struck by how much the world of literary fiction has changed in the decade and a half since the New York Times praised ...

In her first novel in 14 years, the author combines real-life historical events with a dose of magical thinking.

Early in Portlander Karen Russell’s latest novel, The Antidote, its titular witch is trying on names. Rather than cast spells ...

Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel ...

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