David Gergen, the former presidential adviser and political commentator who drew upon his experience to write two books, died on July 10 at the age of 83, the New York Times reports.

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An examination of New York’s Central Park and its history, set in the context of global climate change.

A one-two punch of grindhouse horror from one of the craft’s most inventive practitioners.

DeLisi presents a science primer in the form of talks between a mother, a father, and their very curious teenage child.

An existence of pleasingly dull normality is upended when a gastropod becomes a creature of the night. Bob lives an uneventful snail life until one evening, after a series of sounds—a scream, three ...

In Marriott’s mystery sequel, a retired homicide detective reluctantly investigates a murder in Greece.

An ordinary woman finds extraordinary adventures on a river cruise on the Seine.

On the eve of World War II, a motley crew intent on reconnecting with the past motors out to a former hospital for servicemen from the Great War, where two impossible crimes will abruptly diminish ...