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In the spring of 2009, Rachel Grant, a doctoral candidate in life sciences at London's Open University, was studying a population of toads in a large dry lake in central Italy. Common toads reproduce once a year, sometimes traveling great distances to gather at their breeding grounds, and Grant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Toads Predict Earthquakes? | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

O’Brien sensitively profiles the relationship between Mrs. Adams and her husband, who became the sixth president of the United States a decade after Louisa made her journey through Europe. For most of his career, John Quincy Adams was deeply involved in his recreational study of the classics...

Author: By Grace E. Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: O’Brien’s ‘Mrs. Adams’ Envisions A Nuanced Past | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

That prairie populism never left her, even as Tharp, a couple of decades later, became a darling of the avant-garde dance world. She shocked traditionalists with Deuce Coupe, her 1973 dance piece that wedded classical-ballet moves to Beach Boys songs. She worked with Mikhail Baryshnikov and David Byrne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sinatra on Stage: Come Fly With Twyla Tharp | 3/29/2010 | See Source »

The genre is crime fiction, which encompasses everything from [British] cozies to that romantic Raymond Chandler, slumming angel-type detective to Dashiell Hammett, who actually had hardboiled characters. Easy Rawlins is not hardboiled. He's around a lot of hardboiled people, but he himself is a family guy. He's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mystery Writer Walter Mosley | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

Alice Eve and Krysten Ritter are two very busy women. Promoting their upcoming romantic comedy, “She’s Out of My League,” they have been making a whirlwind tour of America, stopping in Boston in late February to screen the movie and orchestrate...

Author: By Eleanor T. Regan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: ‘League’ Stars Not About the Looks | 3/23/2010 | See Source »

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