Book Review: How the Zebra Got Its Stripes
/Popular YouTube sensation Léo Grasset imports his brand of easygoing biology lessons to the pages of a slim book.
Read MoreCollateral Damage
/Back in the halcyon days of the 1990s, writer Fabian Nicieza and artitst Rob Liefeld created "X-Force," perhaps the worst spin-off of Marvel's "X-Men" ever to see print. A new collection invites a trip down memory lane.
Read MoreThe Book Beneath the Noise
/Both a new TV adaptation and the alarmingly dystopian trend of current political news have brought new attention to Margaret Atwood's classic The Handmaid's Tale, but underneath the hype there's the book itself.
Read MoreOf Trowels and Temples
/Archaeology holds the key to 99% of the human past. But how many people really understand it? A new book by archaeologist Eric H. Cline attempts to shed some light on what's buried underground.
Read MoreBook Review: Hamlet Globe to Globe
/A terrific new book tells the story of what happens when a hardy company takes the world's most famous play to every country on Earth.
Read MoreBook Review: Birds of Prey
/The savage, beautiful carnivore-birds who fly and hunt by day are the subject of an enthusiastic new book
Read MoreBook Review: The Quarry Fox
/A charming new book takes readers into the fascinating world of Catskills "critters," trees, trails, and even rocks.
Read MoreBook Review: Protestants
/A invigorating new history looks at the tumultuous 500-year history of Protestantism
Read MoreBook Review: The Imagineers of War
/Famed in pop culture, the unconventional geniuses of DARPA were tasked with developing the technology of the future, today. A big new book delves into the history of the Pentagon's think-tank.
Read MoreA Ballade for the Birthday of My Dearest Wife
/a previously unpublished poem
Read MoreProtein is Protein
/If you're a frog in a pond or hamster in a cage or a lion in lean times, what's your easiest source of a nice quick meal? A new book explores the science of a human taboo.
Read MoreBook Review: Carnivore Minds
/Sharks, bears, rattlesnakes ... these and other infamous apex carnivores long considered mindless killing machines are given a fresh and nuanced re-examination in G. A. Bradshaw's new book.
Read MoreBook Review: The New Neotropical Companion
/A classic nature guide gets an elaborate, beautiful update.
Read MoreBook Review: The Gulf
/The whole sweep of the Gulf of Mexico's nature and history is the subject of a fascinating and passionate new book.
Read MoreJubilant Cosmos
/The inimitable and meteoric Margaret Cavendish is the subject of a captivating new historical novel by Danielle Dutton.
Read MoreOnce Upon a Time in Kerala
/A pivotal work of Indian literature, Chemmeen is both a romantic tale of star-crossed lovers and a stinging critique of women’s oppression.
Read MoreBook Review: Stalin and the Scientists
/The Soviet Union billed itself as a scientific utopia, and yet, as a tremendously readable new history illustrates, the awkward of marriage of state and science gave rise to a parade of absurdities.
Read MoreBook Review: Homo Deus
/The author of the popular-science hit Sapiens returns with a book that looks not to humanity's distant past but rather to its immediate future.
Read MoreThe Disgraceful Lowlands of Writing
/Reiner Stach's masterful, epic biography of Kafka is finally complete. Never has the man been less mysterious, but can it illuminate the confounding, beguiling mystery of his writing?
Read MoreJung-leland
/Bruce Springsteen's therapist was one of the inspirations for his memoir Born to Run. Does the book help him make sense of his transformation from wild and innocent rock 'n' roller to millionaire icon?
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