In the hall of mirrors that is Brock Clarke’s novel “Exley,” a fictitious 9-year-old prodigy named Miller Le Ray lives in Watertown, N.Y. Because Miller is a highly precocious reader, he knows that a ...

"Watertown," Frederick Exley once wrote of his upstate New York hometown "was nothing other than a state of mind." And it's the notion of "state of mind" -- especially the obsessive state of mind -- ...

In the shadow of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in Williamsburg, away from the bustle and crowd of Bedford Avenue, there’s an unassuming new bar that boasts small bites, strong cocktails and a ...

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 1958 file photo, New York Giants halfback Frank Gifford participates in a workout in New York. In a statement released by NBC News on Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015, his family said ...

There are no rules for loss, no rules for estrangement, except maybe this one: Absence makes the heart grow confused. Once somebody you love goes away, your mind plays a series of tricks on you, and ...