Judge William H. Alsup turned his San Francisco courtroom into a lecture hall for two hours Thursday. The lesson: a crash ...

Hundreds of people converged on Clark Lake to willingly jump into its fridged water for charity. Here is that headline and some more you might have missed this week. 475 brave the cold for Special ...

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a distinguished art museum located in the Back Fens/Kenmore neighborhood. It is known ...

From contact with aliens courtesy of Adrian Tchaikovsky to the childhood writings of Octavia E. Butler, February’s sci-fi ...

I picked up Racing Green by Kit Chapman, which I really enjoyed! So when I was interested in picking up more nonfiction, ...

The story of world music, the mystery of what the universe is made of, the tale of a scientific fraud and more.

Sarah Chihaya’s unconventional memoir charts her troubled relationship with the literature that formed her.

In February, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss “Orbital,” a Booker Prize-winning novel following six people living and working on a space station above Earth.

The book, the third in a series, has sold 2.7 million copies in its first week, and provided yet another example of the ...