He was a spy, a crusader, an obsessive advocate for neglected people and places—yet his work was shaped, too, by an inner ...

A new biography of Peter Matthiessen chronicles his many paradoxical attempts to escape who the world expected him to be.

I t’s said necessity is the mother of invention. For Rich Benoit, that proverb wound up being the catalyst for his incredibly ...

From thunder gods to serpent slayers, scholars are reconstructing myths that vanished millennia ago. How much further can we ...

The graphic novel Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees is getting it's own storytelling game where players take on the role of ...

Matthiessen’s politics drifted left. He quit the C.I.A. It was clear that he could write. When just out of Yale he sold a ...

Trees’ inner heartwood harbors methane-producing microbes adapted to oxygen-poor swamps and cow guts ...

By moving beyond lab tasks to richer, real-world settings, we can better understand how perception shapes experience, ...

Mystery Train’ author Greil Marcus discusses his seminal rock ‘n’ roll book, which is being rereleased for its 50th ...

But I have learned, by painful personal experience, that there is value in the constant scrutiny of the ordinary and mundane.

Philosopher Jonah Branding’s “decision tree” explores a new road map for identifying consciousness in living things.