In recent years, scientists studying dinosaurs have revolutionized what we know about a world lost to time, much of it covered here. In this issue look for extraordinary paleoart inspired by the latest research showing what dinosaurs looked like in real life (feathered, striped, camouflaged); how many of them managed to live so gigantically large; how they ate; and how they mated and had their young. Also inside: surprising new details about their

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"The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. In this fresh, authoritative version--the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman--this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse...

"As you might expect, Chesterton uses Chaucer as an excuse for talking about practically everything else, and a supremely fortunate excuse Chaucer provides. For Chaucer, above all men, deserves the vague and promiscuosly granted title 'first of the moderns.' The 'Canterbury Tales' is virtually the first novel of character, and Chaucer wrote it, fittingly enough, in a little thind he'd tossed off himself, namely the English language. But he was also...

When Danny returns to Tortilla Flat after World War I, he moves into a house left to him by his grandfather. One by one, various people are drawn to Danny's house, lured by Danny's generosity and the camaraderie that springs up around him.