So when the author swerves, as he does recurrently in this book, into the shaded past tense of memoir and the elevated outlook of social commentary, the torsion is not just startling — it’s strangely ...

Reindeer conjure joyful images of Santa Claus, Christmas, and Rudolph, but the truth about these cold-weather animals is much drearier. Placed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s ...