In total, the Dune series spans about 16,000 years, making it a particularly difficult story to parse if you’re dipping in ...

Global warming is producing a rapid loss of plant species -- according to estimates, roughly 600 plant species have died out since 1750 -- twice the number of animal species lost. But which species ...

I began a strange and wobbly effort to write a book I tentatively called The Unauthorized Autobiography of Jesus Christ. It ...

The Handmaid's Tale' author and literary icon Margaret Atwood's long-awaited memoir, 'Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts,' is ...

Scientists also declared several other extinctions, including the first documented plant extinction in New Hampshire.

As more and more "historical" checklists are added to the platform, birds we've lost now mingle with those still hanging on.

This fantastic two-minute video, from a guy named Rich, neatly explains why the anger and frustration of Trump’s supporter ...

As the British journalist Dorian Lynskey relates in his erudite, delightfully witty, and strangely cheering new book, ...

Today, I’m talking with Andy Hunter, the CEO of Bookshop.org. Bookshop, at its core, is a website that lets local bookshops ...

Briefly the book focuses on Climate Change and the reasons why the recent manmade climate changes, are causing the destruction of Earth's forests. Which, according to Dr. Goodall, will ultimately ...

Approximately 66 million years ago, a catastrophic event occurred that reshaped life on Earth in dramatic ways: the K-T extinction event. Named after the boundary between the Cretaceous (K) and ...

It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.