In December — a prime season for those big coffee table books that shoppers like to give as gifts — maybe we should raise a glass to bird artist John James Audubon, who helped popularize the genre ...

(This story was updated because an earlier version included an inaccuracy.) In 2020, Ohio birder, author, editor and illustrator Kenn Kaufman took on a COVID project unlike most with "The Birds That ...

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 ...

John James Audubon (1785-1851) is a much-studied personality, his journals and writings giving historians such tasty fodder that it might seem difficult to present a fresh view of this unruly genius.

or most of his career, which has earned him the top prizes that can be awarded an author in the United States, Richard Rhodes has been looking for America. Now, with his 20th book, "John James Audubon ...

AUDUBON’S AMERICA—Edited by Donald Culross Peattie—Houghton Mifflin ($6). John James Audubon migrated up & down early 19th-Century North America about as freely as the birds he painted. When he was ...