Books

Illustrator Bob Eckstein shares his favorite strange stories from some of the world's most famous museums.

From Nero's revolving dining room to Augustus’s rigged lottery.

In a preview of our new book, we listen closely to critters saying a lot more that you'd think.

Polar explorer Edmund Stump has made 13 field trips to research and photograph the southern continent.

In a preview of our new book, we witness how, every five to seven years, the Atacama shows its true colors.

In a preview of our new book, we meet birds that form a sweet alliance with people.

In a preview of our new book, we watch the world’s largest living structure renews itself in nights of moonlit passion.

In a preview of our new book, we meet beautiful nonbinary animals that combine male and female characteristics.

In a preview of our new book, we meet some of humankind’s earliest muses.

In a preview of our new book, we look at scrappy and squat high-elevation trees that can live for thousands of years without seeming to age.

They will not be shushed.

Author Christopher Cokinos can’t get enough of the moon.

In a preview of our new book, we meet a small bird that makes a blood pact with a large mammal.

From a 1915 suffragist road trip to the “First Lady of Drag Racing.”

Beware the foreshadow of a darkened sky.

In a preview of our new book, we meet bats that construct tiny abodes of leaves, with built-in security alarms.