Three Light-Years

This translation from Italian of Andrea Canobbio’s delicate, mature romance between two doctors (and longtime friends) who fall in love despite impossible circumstances sails on delicate, entrancing prose. Call it an episode of Gray’s Anatomy directed by...

The Rhesus Chart

And now for something completely different: the next tale in Charles Stross’ acclaimed Laundry Files series (in which a covert office protects Britain from paranormal danger) finds the team battling zombie leeches that have inhabited the staff of a local bank....

Hans Christian Andersen: European Witness

Once upon a time, the creator of “The Ugly Duckling” and “The Princess and the Pea” came of age in Denmark before changing Europe and soon the world with his wondrous and elaborate fairy tales. Paul Binding here tells us a story of spritely...

Math at the Mint

July 5: Sir Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica, often described as the single most influential book in the history of science, was published on this day in 1687.