“Jackal” jettisons the novel’s early ’60s period setting and, along with it, the Jackal’s borrowed-from-real-life target, ...

Part marriage plot, part novel about novels, “Northanger Abbey” is Austen’s strangest—and perhaps most underappreciated—work.

Prof Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Kenya and Africa’s towering man of letters who has died at the age of 87, evolved from a mythical ...

The Stephen Sondheim, Burt Shevelove and Nathan Lane musical features Glee star Kevin McHale in his UK stage debut ...

Their colours led to them being called "metallic poison frog" and "heavenly poison frog". Though they are roughly the same size, the frogs behave in diametrically opposed manners. Ranitomeya ...

Frogs are widely known as good multimode locomotors. Webbed feet help them to swim efficiently in water. This paper presents the study of frog's swimming locomotion and adapting the webbed feet for ...

He also edited Sir Henry Elliot’s Supplemental Glossary of Indian Terms (1869). Beams learned the native languages during his stay in the subcontinent. In the words of Grierson, “to him were ...

Petrova had been vacationing in France, where she stopped at a lab specializing in splicing superfine sections of frog embryos and obtained a package of samples to be used for research.

Under the settlement, whose financial terms have not been disclosed, the two companies have entered into global cross-license agreements for their patents. Additionally, all ongoing lawsuits and ...

‘WE ARE DUCKS and have hatched a wild swan,' Florence Nightingale's sister Parthenope marvelled to Elizabeth Gaskell. Certainly the Nightingales were not a nest of singing birds. Gillian Gill tells a ...

The New York Times Saturday Review of Books: Recently, reading for the first time "A Japanese Nightingale," by Onoto ... But she has not committed her literary purloining cleverly.

It is always, as we know, under attack," Hall said to open the ceremony Eugene Gologursky/Getty Tamron Hall is giving some special kudos to a select group of literary minds. The Emmy Award-winning ...