NEW YORK — The story of a Brandeis University scientist and her famous African grey parrot, Alex, whose untimely death last fall made news around the world, will be told in a book. Irene Pepperberg's ...

As the new school year kicks off, kids will be assigned plenty of math, science, history and grammar lessons. But children’s literature — including these books written and illustrated by local authors ...

America is a nation of turbulent pork eaters, obsessed with money and trade: So opines Olivier-Jean-Baptiste de Clarel de Barfleur de Garmont, one of two narrators in Peter Carey’s comic novel, ...

MCCRAE, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA, February 4, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Australia In celebration of literary excellence, The Chrysalis BREW Project announces the winners ...

Did you hear the one about Alexis de Tocqueville? Probably not. The French historian is associated with many things -- his classic two-volume book Democracy in America, for starters -- but comedy is ...

There are certain things you know you’re going to get from a Peter Carey novel: scale of ambition, narrative boldness, apparently inexhaustible imagination and fizzingly exuberant imagery. Even by his ...

Blue, the 6-year-old parrot belonging to powerful, high-profile political lobbyist Ron Book, has been "birdnapped." But according to the caretaker Book accuses of stealing the valuable macaw, the bird ...