David Sedaris will mark his 17th appearance in the Dallas Museum of Art's program Arts & Letters Live next week. Before that, ...

Shelley Lowe, a former high school Latin teacher, opened Monkey and Dog Book Shop in a 120-sq.-ft. space inside a friend’s gourmet products shop in Fort Worth, Tex., in 2013 so that she could sell ...

Books have a way of sparking empathy, drawing readers into the lives of characters who may be different from themselves -- or different from other characters in the story. Kids and teens walk in ...

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Solvej Balle’s series about a woman trapped in time, On the Calculation of Volume, became a sensation in Denmark. Now they arrive in the UK ...

A brave hummingbird does what she can to fight a fire in Sascha Alper's new book. It was one of the last projects illustrator ...

Gwendolyn & Eddie may be fiction, but as Seabaugh will readily admit, much of the story was inspired by his own childhood and ...

One morning in 2024, Armando Schlindwein found an orange-bearded monkey on the roof of his farmhouse on the edge of the ...

Reading books may have several health benefits. These include strengthening your brain, increasing your ability to empathize, reducing stress, and building your vocabulary. Share on Pinterest ...

When monkeys howl -- or yodellers yodel -- they rapidly switch back and forth between low and high frequency sounds. This is in contrast to opera singers, who are trained to precisely control how ...

Whether you’ve joined the 2025 challenge on Goodreads or you’re already planning your spring break and summer holiday reading material, you’re spoiled for choice with new book releases from ...

Yodelling monkeys can produce far greater frequency jumps than humans due to special structures in their throats, research suggests. Scientists investigated the “abrupt frequency jumps” in ...