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The Roman historian Sallustius, also known as Sallust, hit on a crystalline formulation to describe concepts that we know to be fictional and unreal but that nevertheless loom large in our ...

There aren’t a lot of book-to-film adaptations with as much built-in charm as “Remarkably Bright Creatures.” The novel sat on the bestseller list for more than 64 weeks, and since my wife and I always ...

When I first learned about Katherine Rundell’s “Impossible Creatures” (after critic Ron Charles praised it in the Washington Post), the U.K. fantasy novel wasn’t yet available here in the States. SEE ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Best-selling author Shelby Van Pelt joins ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Writers whose subject is the natural world, and the overwhelming changes that humans have inflicted upon it, grapple regularly with a maddening dilemma: how ...

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“Our Kindred Creatures” details the rise, and contradictions, of the animal welfare movement. By Andrew Graybill Andrew Graybill is a professor of history at Southern Methodist University. He is ...

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Section of the Chapter Seven frontispiece Natalie created for Enchanted Creatures showing curiosity cabinet specimens Source: Natalie Lawrence I've always thought that nonhuman animals (animals) are ...