Imagine a world without birds. Just now, a jet-black, golden-eyed currawong flew low past my study window, changing the view. Yet, as Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris tell us in “The Book of Birds: ...

The Library at University of Michigan has set up a beautiful virtual replica of the first volume of Audubon’s The Birds of America. Ordinarily, I don’t give a shit about birds (for what I think are ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...