Joanna Russ stands out even among the New Wave as a writer of considerable technical sophistication. Although the contemporary reception of her works is occasionally marred by reviews of critics who may be unduly influenced by her feminist subject matter...

A man fatally shot his girlfriend and then killed himself as she was opening a lingerie store in a shopping mall Tuesday, police said.The man apparently confronted the woman as she was raising the security gate at the Body Luxuries store, said Houston Police Lt....

Twenty-eight-year-old Christopher Hayes will be The Nation's new DC bureau editor, according to a memo sent to staff this afternoon.Mr. Hayes, who has spent the last year contributing regularly to The Nation as a Puffin Fellow at the Nation Institute, will replace David Corn,...

A roadside bomb in southern China killed two children who found the explosive wrapped in a package and began playing with it, Hong Kong media reported Thursday.Before the blast Wednesday afternoon, residents in Shenzhen said they had received threatening phone calls and police thought the...

Fire swept through a house in southwestern Pennsylvania early Saturday, killing six young children and a woman and injuring one other person, state police said.Several people in the house were able to escape, state Trooper Brian Burden said.Police said the young victims were four girls...

"The Two of Them," is, I am sorry to report, a failure as science fiction. Nominally a parallel-worlds adventure, most of the action takes place on Ka'abah, a planet that has apparently based its racist, male-chauvinist culture on the traditions of the Arabian Nights tales. The protagonists are two undercover agents, working for a shadowy agency called the Trans-Temporal Authority, or more familiarly, The Gang. No one, including the agents, knows what The Gang is really up to. This murk...