The Victorian fascination with natural history combined with affordable book publishing led to some comely titles in elegant binding. The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto ...

Museums are strange things, Jack Ashby, assistant director of the University Museum of Zoology in Cambridge, UK, points out in his new book, Nature’s Memory: Behind the scenes at the world’s natural ...

“[THE POLAR BEAR] had become a symbol,” writes Jon Mooallem in his new book Wild Ones, “for some otherwise inexpressible pang—of guilt, of panic—that can burble into the back of your mind, or the pit ...