Arielle Zibrak, a professor of English at the University of Wyoming, edited a volume of short stories by American women writers that is forthcoming from Penguin Classics in March.

Similarly, most living things produce records of their own existence in layered body tissues – often in the form of daily or ...

The math that describes the branching pattern of trees in nature also holds for trees depicted in art—and may even underlie ...

The scale invariance in branch diameter dictates how much smaller a limb should be as it branches and how much investment a ...

Two new novels riff on fairy tales to explore mothers with unusual hungers and daughters trying to survive them.

Vashti Bunyan looks mildly puzzled at the thought that two decades have elapsed since she was first sat with The Yorkshire ...

Nicholas Bowling, who wrote "In the Shadow of Heroes" for children, crafts a "spellbinding" take on "The Secret Garden" as ...

With climate change, wildfires, and human encroachment, our forests are in desperate need of guardians. What is being done to protect our woodlands?

The book also contains anecdotes about the death of her partner and revelations about her mother, a gifted painter who ...

The staff from the Aspen bookstore recommends a memoir on motherhood, a book on mushroom capitalism and newly translated ruminations on Rome.

All in all, you could hardly ask for a better follow-up to The Roottrees are Dead, which itself is a lavish revamp of the ...

Origins Lodge Costa Rica is a holistic ecoretreat in the jungle with gourmet organic food, adventure and wellness activities, ...