Now that 2025 is coming to a close—and good riddance, I say—it’s time to look back and reflect on the carnage. One of the defining themes of the past 11 months, and certainly one most pertinent to the ...

Houston police officers respond to a body found in the Brays Bayou on Dec. 22, 2025. Houston police recovered two dead bodies Monday from two different local bayous. Their discovery means there have ...

The publication of “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” is an occasion to celebrate the Nobel Prize winning poet whose work extends Ireland’s extraordinary literary lineage. Heaney takes his place alongside ...

Cover art for ‘Bog Queen’ owned by Coffee House Press. Stories are constantly being lost to the past. Historians and scientists may attempt to piece history together with their discoveries, but gaps ...

You may have heard of a bog — those wet, mucky environments found mostly in the northern temperate pockets of Canada or Europe — but did you know that bogs can preserve human bodies for thousands of ...

Over the past centuries, the remains of more than 500 men, women, and children have been unearthed during peat-cutting activities in northwestern Europe. The "bog bodies" were pulled from their soggy ...

Anna North's new novel captures attention even before the first page. The dedication is, for the moss. ANNA NORTH: (Reading) A colony of moss does not experience emotions like fondness or intimacy, ...