Thompson travels back to his native Mississippi (he grew up in Clarksdale, about 30 miles north of Drew, the closest town to the barn) and talks to scores of people, building on the reporting of ...

I’m culture critic and fervent bookworm Chris Vognar. This week I spoke with Wright Thompson, a Mississippi native whose new nonfiction book, “The Barn,” looks at the murder of Emmett Till f ...

Wright Thompson grew up in the Mississippi Delta, about 30 miles from where the body of Emmett Till was pulled from the Tallahatchie River in 1955. The 14-year-old’s savage murder is widely ...

Based on Suzuki’s own experiences in the adult industry, the book chronicles the young woman’s wanderings from bar to bar, ...

“Just some guy’s barn,” Wright Thompson tells in his piercing biography of the building, the history of the surrounding landscape and the portraits of people whose stories — and terrible ...

Wright State University, University of Dayton and Sinclair Community College – have created unique programs and degrees that ...

Amid the mass destruction seen in northern Oroville during the Thompson Fire earlier this year, recreation also took a big ...

Nick Wright dives into the Los Angeles Lakers' consistent failures from the front office after failing to land Klay Thompson and other key free agents. Watch as he sounds off on what makes the ...

The civil rights giant Flonzie Brown says having this Mississippi Freedom Trail marker in her honor is a full-circle moment ...

Percentages: FG 37.681, FT .583. 3-Point Goals: 8-29, .276 (Dunn 2-5, Morgan 2-4, Noguero 1-5, Augustinaite 1-3, Carnegie 1-5, Wright 1-3, Smith 0-1, Termis 0-1, Grooms 0-1, Thompson 0-1) Blocked ...

Thompson travels back to his native Mississippi (he grew up in Clarksdale, about 30 miles north of Drew, the closest town to ...

“The barn… is long and narrow with sliding doors in the middle,” writes Wright Thompson in ‘The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi. This cover image released by Penguin ...