Now, if there’s one thing we know about nerds out there, it’s that they love a creature. It can be a cute creature, a fearsome beast, a gorgeous animal, or a hideous monstrosity, and ardent fans will ...

When I first learned about Katherine Rundell’s “Impossible Creatures” (after critic Ron Charles praised it in the Washington Post), the U.K. fantasy novel wasn’t yet available here in the States. SEE ...

Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy’s Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals is a provocative, sometimes disturbing examination of Americans’ evolving attitudes ...

The next great fantasy franchise could be coming soon, as Disney announced its plans to adapt the Impossible Creatures books into a series of films. Audiences have turned great fantasy book series ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Writers whose subject is the natural world, and the overwhelming changes that humans have inflicted upon it, grapple regularly with a maddening dilemma: how ...

“Our Kindred Creatures” details the rise, and contradictions, of the animal welfare movement. By Andrew Graybill Andrew Graybill is a professor of history at Southern Methodist University. He is ...