One of the many perquisites of practicing medicine at Saint Louis University has been the opportunity to participate in a medicine and literature program. Roughly once a month, the participants are ...

Lost in the cosmos: How to build a universe; Welcome to the solar system; Reverend Evans's universe -- Size of the earth: Measure of things; Stone-breakers; Science red in tooth and claw; Elemental ...

Rowan Hooper: Bill, when I mentioned in the office that you were coming in, people reacted like I’d said Ryan Gosling or David Beckham was visiting. Bill Bryson: It’s my looks. RH: Your 2003 book, A ...

Bill Bryson, the author of "A Short History of Nearly Everything," narrows his focus considerably when he chats about his travels through the Welsh countryside. Lisner Auditorium, 730 21st St. NW. $15 ...

Upon learning of Bill Bryson’s new Shakespeare (The Illustrated and Updated Edition), I felt momentarily confused. Had that witty writer of felicitous English prose already composed a new Shakespeare ...

Bill Bryson is visibly startled to see himself back. “Oh my god, I’m in a cave,” he says, grinning at the bearded face emerging from the gloom of his home office in Hampshire. A desk plaque in the ...