Ali Smith’s new novel, “Glyph,” dispenses with subtleties and takes on an age of war and the ghosts left behind.

The Sheep Detectives,” starring Hugh Jackman and Emma Thompson, is based on a near-perfect “sheep crime novel”—but the adaptation shows disappointingly little interest in the animal mind.

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Set in Greece, the eight-part drama from writer Catherine Shepherd revolves around a group of university friends who reunite to go on a two-week holiday. But after an illicit kiss takes place, things ...

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As 1968 began, Paul Ehrlich was an entomologist at Stanford University, known to his peers for his groundbreaking studies of the co-evolution of flowering plants and butterflies but almost unknown to ...

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