The range and variety of Jane Smiley's work as a writer of fiction have resulted in a great deal of critical attention, a wide and committed readership, and several different perceptions of her achievement. Smiley's novels, particularly those following T...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, Jane Smiley has also won acclaim for her work as an author of short fiction. In The Age of Grief: Stories and a Novella (1987), Ordinary Love and Good Will: Two Novellas (1989), The Life of the Body: A Story (1990), and...

GETTING THERE: Air Greenland has twice-weekly flights on Mondays and Thursdays from BWI to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. Fares range from $1,100 to $2,600 round trip. If you plan to base your trip in southern or eastern Greenland, Air Iceland flies to several locations in...

Why did the Vikings call that big ice-covered island in the North Atlantic "Greenland?" We distinctly remember being taught in school that the Vikings caught sight of the big island, saw green pastures along the shore and, dunces that they were, named the...

Global Warming: If the rock stars who flew hundreds of thousands of miles in their jets to save the earth wanted to hug trees, they could have hugged the forest that once covered Greenland.We didn't see Sheryl Crow passing out single-sheet allotments of toilet paper...

Thanks in part to the Gulf Stream, palm trees survive the winter in southwestern England and the fjords of Norway never freeze. Here's how it works:As the Gulf Stream flows northward, the surface water evaporates because of the temperature difference between the warm tropical water...