When J.R.R. Tolkien finally completed his Lord of the Rings trilogy in 1949, the Oxford don scarcely imagined his fantasy epic would entrance readers
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Three decades after Frances FitzGerald won a Pulitzer Prize for Fire in the Lake, her classic work on Vietnam, she returned with photojournalist Mary Cross
Why does Smithsonian feel the need to be so topical?
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Danger comes with the territory for our writers
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Desert Whitetails and Flame Skimmers cavort in the sinkholes of New Mexico's Bitter Lake Refuge
Before "ecology" became a buzzword, John Steinbeck preached that man is related to the whole thing
Challenged to prove his germ theory of disease, Louis Pasteur shaped the terrain on which the battle against anthrax is being fought
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Revisiting his old haunts in Nepal, the author looks for tigers and finds a clever new strategy for saving them
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Two Americans retrace the steps of the 13th-century Italian merchant through a harsh land of tough, hospitable people
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Intrepid travelers pay cold hard cash to chill out in the world's coolest hotel
Any other year, giving reactionary author V. S. Naipaul a Nobel Prize would have sparked debate
A new exhibition tracks the turbulent nine weeks that artists Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin lived and painted together in the South of France
It turns out the America portrayed by printmakers Currier and Ives was not all sleigh rides in the snow
Zane Grey went West, fell in love with the desert and redefined the modern cowboy novel
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