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 ...

Walt Disney Studios has nabbed the adaptation rights to Katherine Rundell’s Impossible Creatures fantasy book series for big screen treatments. Rundell will turn the first two books set in the ...

The Roman historian Sallustius, also known as Sallust, hit on a crystalline formulation to describe concepts that we know to be fictional and unreal but that nevertheless loom large in our ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

“Remarkably Bright Creatures” book signing: 6:30 p.m., First Congregational Church, 1128 Pine St., Boulder. Shelby Van Pelt will speak about and sign her latest novel “Remarkably Bright Creatures.” ...

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 ...

WILLIAMSTOWN — What, exactly, is a doll? A doll, of course, is not a living, breathing thing. But it’s not quite an object either. “You cannot pin them down. They’re always between object and thing.