THE MARRIAGE PROJECT Authors Anne Lamott and Neal Allen kept wedded bliss intact while writing and editing a book together. Photo courtesy of Neal Allen. Anne Lamott and her husband, Neal Allen, ...

If you have read Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver—the first volume of his Baroque Cycle (2003)—you will remember the smell of the age he recreates: Wet ink, gossip, gunpowder, and the new arrogance of ...

A medieval Maya text for predicting solar eclipses has puzzled Western scholars for centuries. Now, researchers John Justeson, a linguist at the University of Albany, and archaeologist Justin Lowry of ...