Carl Jackson caught this year's heaviest Burmese python in Florida. Could the next catch happen in Palm Beach County?

For more than 40 years, New Orleans cartoonist and writer Bunny Matthews celebrated, poked fun at and critiqued New Orleans ...

Eric Idle, a founding member of Monty Python, bought a shack in France in 1971. Decades later, the shack is a "shackeau," he says. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Idle about his book "Idle in Provence." ...

Which books to help you learn to draw are best? Learn-to-draw books all teach amateur artists how to master the basic skills. All of them have lots of beautiful drawings, too. Better instructional ...

The Van Eeghen Drawing Book, newly donated to the Rijksmuseum, holds works attributed to Rombout van Uylenburgh, the cousin of Rembrandt's wife. The 17th century Van Eeghen Drawing Book, from the ...

Louise Erdrich occupies one of those rare and coveted positions among contemporary authors: Like Ann Patchett, Colson Whitehead, Jonathan Franzen, the late Hilary Mantel, and others, she is both a ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The number of books pulled from Duval County Schools shelves has more than doubled in recent months, and a national free expression group says the process raising those numbers ...

More than 100 local artists helped create a coloring book, post-heightened immigration enforcement, to remind kids and families of the power of community and supporting one another's neighbors.

In my Boston Globe review of Louise Erdrich’s 2016 novel “LaRose,” I described her as “an artist of the liminal.” “Python’s Kiss,” Erdrich’s new collection of stories written over 20 years, testifies ...

When a junior at an Orange County public high school in Florida visited the school library to check out a copy of “On the Road” by Jack Kerouac, it wasn’t in its Dewey decimal system-assigned location ...

A collection of personal notes penned for Jeffrey Epstein's 50th birthday offers a portrait of the convicted child sex offender through crude drawings, images and messages filled with sexual content ...

The drawing was part of a 2003 album of birthday messages for Epstein that the House Oversight Committee released on Sept. 8, 2025. As of this writing, it was unclear who drew the image. On Sept. 8, ...