From metaphors for our behavior to demonstrations of our superior status, we use animals to help define ourselves.

Across the world, certain animals are still relied upon to perform skilled labor essential to human activity. These roles ...

In our current frightening times, powerful men are once again trying to demonise the powerless but the written word provides ...

Clear out your shelves for a bumper new crop of books by authors including Naomi Klein, Rebecca Solnit and Xand Van Tulleken, ...

The ideas presented in George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan's The Neural Mind are fascinating, but the writing is far less ...

It can tell you you’re no good, that it’s all hopeless,” reads one entry, which recently went viral on Instagram. “But ...

Inside the Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Gerry Gregg, wearing an A’s baseball cap and a U.S. Marine Corps shirt, ...

What if the pages of an old book could tell us who touched them, what medicines they made, and even how their bodies ...

Raccoons earned their place as the state wild animal of Tennessee by supporting the state economy and thriving in changing ...

According to listings prepared by personnel of both public library systems, Pilkey’s series accounted for the top five of the ...

From Santa’s reindeer and the Hanukkah armadillo to some very festive sea worms, our changing world is changing life for creatures great and small.

We asked Times Union staffers, librarians, business owners, cominc book writers and readers like you to recommend their ...