Books are gifts for others and ourselves—escapes always at hand. Newsweek staff share their favorites to enjoy or give this year.

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PENZANCE, England (RNS) — On a gray afternoon in November, a group of 19 people gathered outside the Church of St. Buryan, an iconic medieval parish with a 92-foot granite tower that dominates the ...

Centuries-old Marathi stories reveal that India’s savannas have existed much longer than commonly believed, challenging assumptions that they are degraded former forests. Credit: Shutterstock Medieval ...

PARAISO DO SUL, Brazil, Nov 27 (Reuters) - When physician Pedro Lucas Porcela Aurelio unearthed a fossil in Brazil's southern Rio Grande do Sul state in 2014, he could barely imagine his discovery ...