In “Jane Austen’s Bookshelf,” rare-book dealer Rebecca Romney discovers overlooked women authors who inspired the famous ...

Jérôme Sueur’s “Natural History of Silence” and Pico Iyer’s “Aflame” explore the quiet (and the sounds) that sustain us ...

In The Place for History, a bird once found in Missouri is now officially extinct and a German immigrant who lived in the ...

Since his late teens and early 20s George Amos of Wrens has been jotting down his observations of life in poems, stories and ...