A Song of Ice and Fire has become a catch-all descriptor for George R.R. Martin's books set in Westeros and beyond, so how ...

Camper English has, let’s just say, strong feelings about ice. “There’s not a huge difference between clear and cloudy ice in taste or melting speed,” he says. “But aesthetically, it’s a gargantuan ...

Ordering a drink on the rocks is commonplace these days, yet less than a century ago ice was a luxury product and a sign of status. The crystalline solid is the subject of two new books. In “Ice: From ...

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Her presence in Topeka during a brutal heat wave five years ago helped make Amy Brady want to learn more about ice. The 1998 Topeka West High School graduate ended up writing a soon-to-be-published ...

One of the best adventure books ever written begins with a failure. “The order to abandon ship was given at 5 p.m.” So opens Alfred Lansing’s “Endurance” (1959), the definitive account of Ernest ...

We may earn a commission when you buy products through the links on our site. A photo of a raffish iceman, his signature tongs gripping a heavy block, decorates the cover of Ms. Brady’s book, ...

The Dawn of DC storytelling initiative has been spotlighting a number of female characters from the DC Universe. How does it feel to not only be part of an all-female creative team for this project, ...