Lucy

Transgenic animals—hybrids between two or more species—exist all around us, as mere agricultural and pharmaceutical beasts of burden. This little-noted biological frontier inspires novelist Laurence Gonzales to ponder the day when a human-bonobo mix is possible, resulting in his eponymous character, a young girl who finds herself in a storm of controversy and greed.

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February 9: Alice Walker was born on this day in 1944. Thirty years after her Pulitzer winner The Color Purple, Walker continues to publish in many genres. Her most recent book is The Chicken Chronicles, a memoir-meditation…

Once held close to the chest and protected by well-understood laws, the valuable information about our lives that we blithely disclose with our every keystroke has the potential…