Beset by traffic, smog and other distractions, it's easy to forget that driving a car is an act of free will, in theory transcending race, class and gender. Then imagine what life would be like...

Maine's backcountry is being invaded by feral hogs. Hordes of drunken, half-naked college students are partying up and down the winding Saco River. A teenager who disappeared years ago is about to be...

Mayim Bialik plays smart on TV's "The Big Bang Theory" and is smart in real life, with a Ph.D. in neuroscience as evidence. She joins her intelligence with experience in "Girling Up: How to be...

On their last day together, the Silicon Valley elite couple Sheryl Sandberg and Dave Goldberg were sunbathing and playing the popular strategy board game The Settlers of Catan on the iPad. It was...

At her heaviest, Roxane Gay weighed 577 pounds. In her powerful, at times harrowing, new memoir, "Hunger," Gay explains how she got that way and what it's like to live "trapped in a cage" of her own...

Eleanor Oliphant has her life together, or so she would like you to believe. She works in an office, she binge drinks alone every weekend in her apartment and wears gloves indoors when her eczema...

A solar eclipse attracts devoted followers who travel to the best sites to witness the phenomenon, aided by online forums, maps and social media. These eclipse chasers, who relish "celestial...

In "Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon," author Jeffrey Kluger takes readers inside the capsule of the Apollo 8 mission, the first one to journey to the moon and back,...

A new book offering a fresh angle on the events of the Great Siege of Malta is to gain funding for publication by crowdfunding on Maltese site, ZAAR.com.mt. Although there have been many accounts...

In this new book, 'One Day, When I am Younger', Jacob Burak examines in his witty and lucid way the motives and decision-making processes that we overlook when routinely reflecting upon our...