In “Study for ‘The Adding Machine’” (2023), a group of smiling faces surrounding a typing woman appear like a vision from a 1950s pamphlet in a cluster of gnarled trees. And in the ...

Photos of the early University of Montana campus show few trees, just the original plantings around the Oval and Norway maples along the streets. Now, some 2,300 trees grow there, including rare ...

In Crotchet Castle, Thomas Love Peacock rejects the expectation that novelists should reveal the interiority of their characters, instead favouring the testing of opinions and ideas. His ‘novel of ...

ZHU XUEBING/FOR CHINA DAILY The oldest tree in Tianjin, a gnarled and leafy locust variety in the city's mountainous northern Jizhou district that is considered sacred, turns 1,630 this year. Some 7 ...