Collectors with a love of medical history are bidding up the price of arcane texts; ‘I don’t need a car, but I certainly need ...

The Dalai Lama will turn 90 in July. Dalai Lamas, who functioned as the political and spiritual heads of Tibet for over three centuries, have been chosen as reincarnations. Given the threat of the ...

In the summer of 2018, 59-year-old David Gould went for his annual checkup, expecting to hear the usual: Everything looks fine. Instead, he was told that he was newly—and oddly—anemic.

Delving into the unusual worlds of Reid Byers’s “Imaginary Books,” Paul Valéry’s “Monsieur Teste” and “The Anthologist’s ...