Sometimes as I was approaching the end of “Tom’s Crossing,” Mark Z. Danielewski’s new novel, I had to put the book down for a while to walk in my neighborhood. At least once, I even cried in the newly ...

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First, a trigger warning to readers who share my profound squeamishness where certain bodily functions are concerned: what follows will make reference to the eccentric bowel-emptying habits of our ...

Above: A Von Karman vortex street downwind of the Canary Island chain in the eastern Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa on Feb. 27, 2015. Image credit: NASA Worldview. Editor's note: Meteorologist ...