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Journalist and self-proclaimed “crappy gardener” Tamar Haspel is on a mission: to show us that raising or gathering our own food is not as hard as it’...

After spending some 40 years at Eastern Illinois University, Charles Titus, a retired history professor, decided to share some of that history in his ...

The pandemic has brought a lot to light, perhaps most notably a new attitude towards work and one's behavior at work.A social psychologist at New...

In a world beset by supervillains, now we have a guidebook: “How To Take Over the World” by Ryan North. It’s familiar territory for North, a comic (as...

“No regrets.” You hear people say that as a positive philosophy of life. But that’s nonsense, even dangerous, notes Daniel Pink in his latest book, “T...

A book about index funds? Passive investing? Snooze time, right? Not with Robin Wigglesworth, the man with the "Harry Potteresque" last name...

Take a cartoonist who holds a PhD in robotics from Stanford University and team him with a professor of physics and astronomy and you’ve got the succe...

Michelle Huneven is the author of “Search,” a novel about a restaurant critic and a longtime member of the Unitarian Universalist church in Southern C...

Talk about your famous families or is it infamous? John Wilkes Booth, after all, goes down as one of the most loathsome villains in history but Fowler...

Don't let the title throw you. Cassandra Quave is an ethnobotanist  but her quest is easy to understand. She wants to develop new ways to fight i...

Named by The Washington Post as one of the best feel-good books of 2021, "The Comfort Book" is the ideal read for your next plane trip, espe...

Among the blurbs on the back of Kelefa Sanneh's "Major Labels," a book about popular music, is this from David Letterman: "Kelefa ...