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

New Milford teens Jackson Olmstead, Christopher Setear and Bradyn Cerra have been honored for their efforts in warning a ...

and "Vampires in the Lemon Grove," returns with a magical new novel, "The Antidote" (available March 11 from Knopf), a Nebraska Dust Bowl-era tale of a prairie witch, who stores the memories that ...

swaps the bogs for the disastrously dry plains of Nebraska. It's here, beneath the darkening skies of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s, that Russell sets the cast of her historical epic. The storm's ...