Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

In the Age of Dinosaurs, survival often came down to endurance rather than speed. Find out who the fastest dinosaurs would ...

Healing the gut may be the key to improving long-term recovery in stroke patients, scientists at Texas A&M University have ...

Lucy may be the best-known prehuman fossil in the world. But other famous fossils have given us important insight into our ...

Palmer is an associate professor at the University of Chicago whose work sits at the intersection of biology, physics, ...

A new fossil may revolutionize our understanding of bird brain evolution, shedding light on how the intelligence of modern ...

It is a triumph that most of the 8 billion humans alive today are living relatively happily and, thanks to modern medicine, ...

A catastrophic gunshot wound changed Derek Pfaff’s life. Ten years later, at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, his life changed again ...

Hallmark's Sarah Drew sets the record straight about her reaction to her character's write-off from the long-running TV ...