When Gliding Bird, her debut album, came out, in 1970, Emmylou Harris was not an obvious contender for stardom. By 1975, however, (when she released Pieces of the Sky and Elite Hotel), she was firmly ...

Readers are spoiled for choice when it comes to popular science reading this month, with new titles by major names including Maggie Aderin and Michael Pollan ...

Like snowflakes themselves, no two picture books about snow are the same. But they share some common ground — dramatic ...

Children’s book illustrator Richard Cowdery, known for Fiona the Hippo and Marley and Me, is now creating custom pet ...

A book of essays by actor Lili Taylor, a memoir by restaurateur Keith McNally, and a bestseller from Andrew Ross Sorkin about ...

Monkey and Dog Books couldn’t believe what happened inside their shop — but their sweet search for the “book baby” quickly ...

The howl of the coyote is America’s “original national anthem,” says Dan Flores, author of Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History. A totemic animal in Native American mythology, the coyote ...

Jenkins compiles more than 300 animals, using a loosely encyclopedic format with sections covering topics like “Animal Extremes,” “Predators,” and “Animal Senses.” Jenkins’s always skillful use of cut ...

A respected resource for decades, the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals has been updated by a committee of experts, taking into consideration input from the scientific and laboratory ...