There’s a new book out this week, a biography of Roger Penrose by Patchen Barss, with the title The Impossible Man: Roger Penrose and the cost of genius. Penrose is one of the greatest figures in ...

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A brilliant Nobel Prize winner struggles to understand why problems in relationships can be harder to solve than problems in ...

Despite evidence of benefits of face-to-face post-adoption contact for children, it is the exception not the rule, finds ...

Outside of U2, the Athens, Ga., quartet was the biggest rock band on the planet in the 1990s. But for those who followed its early career as America’s most popular indie-rock band in the ’80s, ...

Alum draws upon friendship with ‘A River Runs Through It’ to illustrate how teacher and writer inspired generations of ...

The Great Hippopotamus Hotel,” the 25th installment in Alexander McCall Smith’s mystery series, follows a tried and tested formula.

There’s an old adage in sport: that first is everything, and second is nothing. But for the members of Europe, being the ...

Bill Zehme’s biography, “Carson the Magnificent,” tries to break through. Folk tales and beloved characters from cultures around the globe can are celebrated in popular books for young readers.

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