NPR's Scott Simon interviews author Ramona Ausubel about her novel, "The Last Animal," about a family finding solace, after tragedy, in a scientific expedition to the Arctic. Eve, who is 15, and Vera, ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Ramona Ausubel, the award-winning author of "Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty," returns with "The Last Animal" ...

Renowned environmental scientist Jesse H. Ausubel will be honored with the 2022 Nierenberg Prize for Science in the Public Interest. This award is presented annually by Scripps Institution of ...

The first story of Ramona Ausubel's collection lures you in with the simple authority of a fable. "The grandmothers - dozens of them - find themselves at sea." Stranded on an ocean liner for unknown ...

What exactly is a family? Even more profoundly, why is a family? Entire wings of the literary canon have confronted these questions, usually by framing them within the context of human families only.

As has been recognized by many critics and award-bestowers before me, Ausubel is a supernaturally gifted writer whose heart, soul, wit and intellect are evident in every wacky setting, character and ...

Eve, who is 15, and Vera, who's 13, are what Ramona Ausubel calls tagalong daughters to their mother Jane. The year before they lost their father in a car accident and are, quote, "sad and angry and ...

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