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You know you've made it in the book world when the author's name is bigger than the title. That's where Mark Greaney finds himself with...

Put aside your fears about a robotic uprising, says Ruth Aylett, a computer science professor at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, and a ...

Beavers have a long and illustrious history. There were beavers as big as bears for millions of years until some 10,000 years ago. Since then the beav...

Race into space? Not so fast, say Kelly and Zach Weinersmith, the husband-and-wife team whose book, A City on Mars, lays out some of the challenges th...

Godzilla is one of the great movie franchises of our time. But how many people know about the 1955 novella written by Shigeru Kayama, the Japanese sci...

If you're one of those people who has shuddered at the thought of spiders, snakes, or other creepy crawlies invading your space, you might get ne...

Elmwood is a small town in Illinois that had a population of 1,500 when Nelson Dean Jay was growing up. But the small-town boy went on to make a name ...

The past 20 years have not been kind to the newspaper industry. Margot Susca, a communications professor at American University in Washington, D.C. an...

We had another busy year on Read Beat in 2023--more than 50 interviews, almost one per week. Your host is Steve Tarter, a retired newspaper reporter l...

Media folks have been taking questions about the magazine industry to "Mr. Magazine" for decades. Samir Husni, 70, now retired after more th...

J.P. Telotte has been writing about film since 1985. As the man who introduced film studies to Georgia Tech University, Telotte, now professor emeritu...

Most of us are familiar with Nancy, the comic strip penned for decades by Ernie Bushmiller, but what about the new Nancy now produced by Olivia Jaimes...