Miguel Amorós discusses the life and works of Jaime Semprun, with special emphasis on Semprun’s 1997 book, L'Abîme se repeuple (The Abyss… ...

Every Living Thing,” by Jason Roberts, explains and evaluates the work of the 18th-century biologists Carl Linnaeus and Comte de Buffon.

Ephraim Chambers knew what the problem was. There were too many books in the world. I don’t mean like in “Fahrenheit 451,” where books were outlawed and burned by “firemen.” Or like certain groups ...

You're certainly familiar with the feeling: you get an idea for one project, and then a queue starts lining up in your head as you imagine everything else you could be doing. You scroll through ...