With his latest book-length essay, "A Natural History of Empty Lots: Field Notes from Urban Edgelands, Back Alleys and Other Wild Places" (Timber Press), Brown rises to a level of acute observation ...

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Kaia regarded him with a friendly, patient half-smile—an inscrutable look that was neither inviting nor off-​putting. I ...

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In "Standing Dead" she places detective Matty Wray in a forest decimated by pine beetles and delves into her repressed childhood memories.

It has trickled down through history thirdhand, first appearing in a footnote to a study of Flaubert by the scholar René Descharmes, in 1909. Descharmes reported that, according to someone he knew who ...

There may not be any Hollywood directors lining up to snatch the movie rights, but by the time the ‘Scary Stories’ group at ...

Tom Cruise stars as Jack Reacher in the movie adaptations of Lee Child's novels "One Shot" (2012) and "Never Go Back" (2016).

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Nathan Gorelick traces literary criticism and psychoanalysis to their shared origins during the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Primers on environmental activism and a series on resisting autocrats offer a chance study up for the bumpy years ahead.