What we know about the mysterious eel, and a lot more that we do not. Illustration: General Research Division, The New York Public Library My primary associations with Swedish people come from my ...

In his home country of England, the biologist J. B. S. Haldane was a scientific celebrity as famous as Einstein. In addition to his brilliant and omnivorous intellect, he lived a life of epic ...

“We need enigmas,” Patrik Svensson, the Swedish journalist who authored this year’s most surprising sensation, has said. His book is full of them. For centuries, eels have baffled the world’s greatest ...

In this profound work, poet Webster (Wail Song) traces his genealogy like a thread through a labyrinthine racial history of America. Webster positions himself as “the grandchild Continue reading » ...

THE BIRD WAY A New Look at How Birds Talk, Work, Play, Parent, and Think By Jennifer Ackerman 355 pp. Penguin Press. $28. Image Birds: They’re so hot right now. Trapped indoors, we’ve turned to ...