With an empty heart and his spirit ebbing away, Wallace Avery is middle-aged and in mid-life crisis. For $3,000 he purchases a new identity, complete with the Social Security number of a recently deceased man called Anthony Newman, and lights off into dreamland. He tells everyone he’s gone camping—a trip from which he plans to never return as he pursues a goal that had always...

With an unstable and unpopular government, Yemen has been torn by civil conflict and civil war...

Philip K. Dick was a prolific author who saw the shadowy hands behind the...

Queen Victoria was withdrawn and forbidding in old age, her name synonymous with the prevailing, late-19th-century posture of moral Puritanism and stuffy behavior. But in her youth she was regarded as a romantic figure, the storybook princess in a grand and tragic love story. The Young Victoria depicts that romance, the consuming passion between the beautiful queen and her handsome consort...