Book 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 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 MoreBook Review: Making Faces
/The quintessential human feature - the large, expressive face - gets a thorough and fascinating scientific examination.
Read MoreBook Review: John Singer Sargent - Figures and Landscapes
/The magnificent catalogue from Yale University Press of the paintings and drawing of John Singer Sargent comes to its conclusion with volume IX
Read MoreGraphic Novel Review: Son of Superman
/In the first story-arc in the newest era of the ultimate comic-book hero, a deadly enemy threatens the young son of Superman
Read MoreBook Review: If Our Bodies Could Talk
/A handy new books ranges over the whole breadth of human aches and pains and losses and gains - and provides the science behind it all.
Read MoreBook Review: Tracking Gobi Grizzlies
/The world's most endangered population of grizzly bears is the subject of a powerful, haunting new book
Read MoreKeeping Up with the Windsors: Family Drama
/A lavish new production dramatizes the tensions between royalty and personhood in the House of Windsor. Steve Donoghue reviews The Crown.
Read MoreBook Review: Scarlet Experiment
/Can birds - any species of bird, anywhere in the United States - survive their contact with humanity? A new book looks at the science and the sobering numbers.
Read MoreHis Majesty, the Not Excessively Cowardly
/He's forever linked in history with his punning nickname, but a new biography shows there was more to Æthelred than being "Unready"
Read MoreNo Further Arrests Have Been Made
/The serial killer who stalked the streets of London in 1888 and became immortal under the name Jack the Ripper is the subject of a sumptuous new collection of fact and fiction.
Read MoreBook Review: Deepwater Horizon
/The explosion, fire, sinking, and oil spill of the Deepwater Horizon back in 2010 gets a definitive scholarly analysis.
Read MoreBook Review: Where Song Began
/The overflowing diversity of Australian bird life is the subject of Tim Low's captivating new book
Read MoreBook Review: Why Birds Matter
/Who can measure the worth of a nightingale's song? Why scientists can, you silly thing!
Read MoreSingle Occupancy, Lots of Sunlight, Water Included
/For a century, humans have been searching for any sign of extraterrestrial life, intelligent or otherwise. A new book tells the story of that quest - and keeps its geeky hope alive.
Read MoreBook Review: ADHD Nation
/A hard-hitting new book exposes the widespread misdiagnosis of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Read MoreBook Review: The World of Poldark
/The companion book to the 2015 production of "Poldark" turns out to be more than just a pretty face
Read MoreBook Review: The Fifty-Year Mission
/On the occasion of its 50th anniversary, Star Trek gets a definitive oral history.
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