Rachel Carson’s look at the dire effects of industrial and agricultural pollution birthed the modern environmental movement ...

Boston University professor Lida Maxwell’s latest book, Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love, is many fascinating things all at once. On one level, it is a slender biography of the great Rachel ...

The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library will open "Silent Springs, Windswept Seas: Rachel Carson's Environmental Vision" May 18–Oct. 4, a celebration of the unassuming environmentalist.

To an admiring friend, Rachel Carson, 56, was “a nun of nature, a votary of all outdoors.” She also had a rare gift for transmuting scientific fact into lucid, lyrical language. Yet it was only in ...

Today host Lisa Dettmer spends the hour talking to Professor Lida Maxwell, the author of the new book out by Stanford press called “ Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer love.” Rachel Carson, for ...