The Rev. Terry Martin had served large, busy Catholic parishes in the United Kingdom for 25 years before sensing that he had reached burnout. “I was frankly running on empty,” he said when he and I ...

The third-largest outbreak in history of the deadly Marburg virus was sparked by a single jump of the pathogen from an animal to humans, preliminary genomic evidence shows. The outbreak began last ...

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times. Our recommended books this week include histories of corporate mismanagement and misbehavior in the 19th century (“Savings and ...

This month, Anderson launches a remarkable, five-years-in-the-making project called called Alphabet in Motion: How Letters Get Their Shape, an ABC pop-up book about typography. She spent thousands of ...

“Playing Possum,” a new book by the philosopher Susana Monsó, explores the mysteries of grief and mourning in the animal world. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed ...

Watching it go about its life in the small ecosystem of the terrarium put me at ease.” Her book “The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating” is partly an autobiographical reflection on health and ...

Her years of research turned into a book, now translated into English: Playing Possum: How Animals Understand Death (Princeton University Press). In thoughtful prose peppered with lively anecdotes ...