A little-known Charles Dickens book called “Hard Times” was written during the Industrial Revolution as a statement against its diminishment of beauty and the resulting hardness of life. Mr. Gradgrind ...

I had gone into the forest to collect myself. For a sense of timelessness, amid trees here long before I got here, that would ...

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Into the Ice,” a travelogue, historical mystery and memoir, recounting a sail through the Northwest Passage, will appeal to ...

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Astronomers raised hopes that humanity might not be alone in the universe by announcing on Thursday they have detected the ...

Peruse Dr. Victoria Frankenstein's collection of monster oddities in the Manor Storehouse with our complete list of every ...