Robert Sullivan links the behavior and population migration of rats to the urban lifestyle in general, and to life in New York in particular. Sullivan suggests that the history of rats and rat lore form a kind of shadow history of the...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Wall Street Journal Americans tend to think of the Revolution as a Massachusetts-based event orchestrated by Virginians, but in fact the war took place mostly in the Middle Colonies—in New York a...

Henry David Thoreau is one of those authors that readers think they know, even if they don't. He's the solitary curmudgeon with the shack out in the woods, the mystic worshipping solemnly in the quiet church of nature. He's our natio...