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Maureen McLane's experimental essay collection, My Poets, blends her academic and intellectual experiences with the poetry that has inspired her. The NYU professor tells her story through a series of reflections on poets from Chaucer to William Carlos Williams.

Brenda Wineapple's highly engaging biography White Heat examines the poet's enduring friendship with editor Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

Dorothy Wrinch was the first woman to ever receive a doctorate in science from Oxford University, and she was the first person to design a protein structure. But her name is largely unknown. I Died for Beauty, a biography of Wrinch by Marjorie Senechal, tells her story.

The Dixie Fire spared the tiny town of Chester in Northern California. But the massive blaze dramatically transformed the landscape, and could affect it for years to come.

Pandemic home learning efforts could spell the end of traditional snow days. Up to 40% of school districts now say they won't cancel classes when the weather is bad.

In Tennessee, teens who sought judicial permission for an abortion instead of their parents no longer have that option. Judges and others who helped teens now worry about what options are left.

Librarians in Missouri are preparing for a law that bans school personnel from providing sexually explicit material to students — an escalation in the effort to remove books from schools, some say.

A fungal disease that's been devastating bat populations in the Eastern U.S. appears to be moving west faster than predicted. That has big economic and ecological implications.

The city reported that more than 2.9 million people voted, a turnout rate of more than 71%. More people voted in Sunday's local election than any election in Hong Kong to date.

Despite measures meant to protect renters during the pandemic, homelessness among Latino residents has spiked in San Francisco.