HUMOR OF THE OLD DEEP SOUTH— edited by Arthur Palmer Hudson—Macmillan ($5). Readers who are looking for kinky-haired darky side-splitters and dry drawls of whittled wit will be sadly ...

There’s no real “dark side” of the moon, but the far side, which faces away from Earth, is different from the near side we see every day. Samples could reveal why.

"The Blind Side" has been waylaid with controversy more than a decade after the 2009 blockbuster movie's release. On Aug. 14, Michael Oher, the onetime NFL player whose story was dramatized in ...