This week, the Reads beat staff is interested in absurdist fiction, stories that reflect the inane ridiculousness of life. Entering the temporary purgatory of finals week, these selections will remind ...

Ever since I was a kid, I have enjoyed off-kilter media — the strangest books, television shows, and movies out there — particularly if they offer a broken, damaged, or similarly bleak outlook on the ...

STOCKHOLM — Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, whose surreal and anarchic novels combine a bleak world view with mordant humor, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for work the judges said ...

BATAVIA — Coming soon at the Main St. 56 Theater, the Batavia Players will perform a production of “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett. The play is being directed by Jane Burk. It’s about two ...