Carlin is a contributor for TIME. Are plants intelligent? It’s the complex and surprisingly controversial question at the heart of journalist Zoë Schlanger’s revelatory debut, The Light Eaters: How ...

Stephen Graham Jones is something of an expert on slashers. The author has tackled the genre in a slew of his novels (most notably in the Indian Lake Trilogy, with its slasher-movie-obsessed main ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

“The Light Eaters,” Zoë Schlanger’s book published by an imprint of HarperCollins this year, sounds like a scholarly tome on some ancient human civilization. But read the subtitle: “How the Unseen ...