“Playing Possum,” a new book by the philosopher Susana Monsó, explores the mysteries of grief and mourning in the animal world. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book ...

I've long been interested in the evolution of human-nonhuman (animal) relationships and reading award-winning nature writer Keggie Carew's newest book Beastly: The 40,000-Year Story of Animals and Us ...

A fellow of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics has written a new book exploring the spiritual lives of animals.

This is FRESH AIR. I'm David Bianculli, professor of television studies at Rowan University, in for Terry Gross. After winning the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting for Atlantic magazine on the first ...