Paul Stamets and Jeff Chilton began as friends, their collaboration leading to the rise of medicinal mushroom supplements.

To a programmer, code can seem a “domain of sorcery” in which strings of characters have power in the real world.

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

Wally Lamb’s Favorite Books: The author’s go-to classic is by Joseph Campbell, and he admires “Brothers and Keepers” and “The ...

In "The River is Waiting," author Wally Lamb sheds light on the complexities of incarceration, forgiveness, and second ...

Two new books, “The Einstein of Sex” and “The Intermediaries,” argue for the largely forgotten importance of Magnus ...

Nelson Mandela not only put his reputation on the line but spent significant political capital actively supporting the ...

A new book charts how the discipline transcended humble origins and turned into something more ambitious, and more conflicted ...

From the late 1950s a new generation of African writers challenged colonial systems and used their work to imagine a new world.

The Floating World,” a multimedia extravaganza inspired by the art of 18th- and 19th-century Japan, is on view through ...