humble human being. The man who went to dinner with Emerson, Lowell, Dana and others at the Saturday Club in Boston sat down one evening with a new novel The Sun Also Rises, by a new author ...

To this list now comes Dawson’s All of Us Atoms, one of the most stylistically arresting books of the year ... “A lot of pressure is being put on this new generation to save the planet ...

Carl Safina’s account of how he and his family adopted a screech owl, named her Alfie and raised her to adulthood is, on one level, the story of human beings ... The book ends with Alfie still ...