Feb. 20—Bill Bryson has a way with words. Whether it's about heavenly bodies or the body we walk around in or the world we send our bodies through, Bryson can explain things in a way that's easy ...

I tremble sometimes imagining a Bill Bryson book coming to life and walking among us. So rabidly know-it-all! Facts dripping from every fang! Anecdotes oozing from its hideous ululating tongue ...

"At Home: A Short History of Private Life" (Doubleday, $28.95), by Bill Bryson. He's hiked the Appalachian Trail and toured three of the seven continents in the name of book research, so Bill ...

Following his enormously successful book "Notes From a Small Island", American travel writer Bill Bryson sets off on a new tour of Britain. Starting at Dover, where he recalls his first ...