On Nov. 23, the Chicago History Museum is opening a new exhibition, “Injustice: The Trial for the Murder of Emmett Till.” ...

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Under Trump, a new vision of conservative family policy is ascendant.

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Yizhi “Patrick” Cai is coordinating a global effort to write a complete synthetic yeast genome. If he succeeds, the resulting cell will be the artificial life most closely related to humans to date.

This year saw the release of Craig Brown’s magnum opus on the late Queen, as well as dissections of the messy difficulty of ...

Can a homeless person find happiness? Michalis Samolis, who packed his life into a suitcase during Greece's economic crisis, ...

In an excerpt from her new book, ‘Didion and Babitz’, the writer Lili Anolik tells the story of Joan Didion’s first years in ...

To understand life and live by its ups and downs with positivity is quite a feat. You have plenty of books out there to teach ...

Our lives basically change in three ways; through the people we meet, the places we travel, and the books we read. I made ...