Lost in the cosmos: How to build a universe; Welcome to the solar system; Reverend Evans's universe -- Size of the earth: Measure of things; Stone-breakers; Science red in tooth and claw; Elemental ...

One of the many perquisites of practicing medicine at Saint Louis University has been the opportunity to participate in a medicine and literature program. Roughly once a month, the participants are ...

AMES, Iowa — Beloved on both sides of the pond for his writing, which is impossible to dislike, Iowa's own Bill Bryson will speak at Iowa State University. Bryson's talk, "At Home and Abroad," will be ...

Bill Bryson is visibly startled to see himself back. “Oh my god, I’m in a cave,” he says, grinning at the bearded face emerging from the gloom of his home office in Hampshire. A desk plaque in the ...

Upon learning of Bill Bryson’s new Shakespeare (The Illustrated and Updated Edition), I felt momentarily confused. Had that witty writer of felicitous English prose already composed a new Shakespeare ...