Some residents of rural Illinois and Oregon are hoping to ditch their states and either join neighboring ones or create whole new states.

The story of O.J. Simpson’s life was inherently cinematic.

An anthology of the late Norman Mailer’s writing that Random House allegedly had scheduled for his centennial in 2023, but backed off from, will be released by a publisher that has taken on such discarded works as Woody Allen’s memoir “Apropos of Nothing” and a Philip Roth biography written by Blake Bailey.