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New Jersey-based BAHX LLC seeks to construct a five-building apartment complex with 317 total units at Hanover Avenue and West Broad Street.

DIY film-makers flock to Stoneybatter for a monthly showcase of new experimental films – and the audience is growing

The best fiction, nonfiction, history and sci-fi books Scientific American staff read in 2023

Ramsey Reiner left the role of New Garden Township manager on Aug. 22. Chris Adamek, zoning officer, is leaving his position Sept. 30. The township also

Remembering Barbara Bryne, Black Fashion Week, Minnesota Book Awards winners and more. Plus: Absolute Bleeding Edge looks at a book of mashed-up nature writing.

Tom Comitta’s new novel attempts to narratively embody an ecosystem. But is it really possible to render a landscape as its own, round character?

Darwin discovered that evolution proceeds with neither direction nor purpose. The natural world is largely indifferent to plan or plot. Yet we, story-seeking creatures that we are, see the world around us as more completed, more accomplished, than what came before. Tom Comitta’s The Nature Book explores these tensions by stitching together hundreds of fragments in the history of literary writing about the natural world—this excerpt alone is a collage of ninety-seven novels ranging fro...

We go to the wilderness to test ourselves against an environment indifferent to our presence. Can this experience be re-created in fiction?

When: Lititz Borough Council meeting, April 26.

When: Lititz Borough Council meeting, Feb. 22.