Until that morning, when I woke at 5:30 and realized the mosquito in my dream was coming from the street below my window, it seemed to me I’d never heard a backup beep. I’m sure there are ...

The narrator of “Beep,” the new novel by Bill Roorbach, is a traveling squirrel monkey who speaks in a made-up pidgin English and communicates telepathically with other animals and even plants.

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Mississippi State President Mark E. Keenum will cut the ribbon for the university’s official recognition of its new electric-autonomous shuttle system this Friday [Sept. 20]. MSU's ...