Often marginalized by critics during his life, M.C. Escher (1898-1972) is now famous for woodcuts and lithographs that roam the wild frontier of mathematics, images of rooms that warp and buckle, ...

In an era in which we’ve been told that mass data-mining and plagiarism will lead to a magical artificial intelligence that will solve all the great mysteries of life, “The Book of Records” is a ...

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As a child I loved Tom Thumb, the perfectly formed human who was only a couple of inches tall; he roamed the countryside while sitting on the back of a mouse or hitched a ride in the ear of a horse.

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with hot pepper expert Ed Currie about Pepper X, which was named the hottest pepper in the world by the Guinness Book of World Records. What's small, wrinkly, greenish-yellow ...

Madeleine Thien’s allusive novel features a father-daughter duo, migrants from China who find refuge at the Sea, a run-down resort literally on the margins of time and space. Wui and 10-year-old Lina ...

The new novel "The Book Of Records" begins when a 7-year-old girl named Lina arrives with her father in a place called The Sea - S-E-A. MADELEINE THIEN: It's buildings that are a waystation for people ...

Associate Dean International, Faculty of Arts, Design & Humanities, De Montfort University The Book of Records by Madeleine Thien intricately blends historical and speculative fiction to tackle ...