The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad is as gripping as it is absorbing throughout. This is not least because the seedbank was ...

But the heart of “The Forbidden Garden” is what its subtitle calls the “impossible choice” of the Leningrad botanists. Mr. Parkin paints them as stubborn and ultimately heroic.

Forbidden Broadway on Broadway, the updated iteration of the long-running Off Broadway musical-comedy review, is postponing its scheduled summer Broadway debut at the Hayes Theatre due to what ...

In “The Forbidden Garden,” Simon Parkin examines the mad, heroic decision during the siege of Leningrad to guard biodiversity at the cost of human life. By Deborah Blum Deborah Blum, the ...

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City Under Siege by Simon Parkin Sceptre £25/Scribner $30, 384 pages.

Simon Parkin is the author of “Death by Video Game” and host of the podcast “My Perfect Console.” His book “The Forbidden Garden” will be published in October. The pastimes of our ...

The Forbidden Corner isn’t all the Yorkshire Dales has to offer, and the area makes for the perfect nature holiday, with waterfalls, walks and caves to visit.

It was then, says the journalist Simon Parkin in his riveting “The Forbidden Garden,” that Vavilov and his colleagues resolved to “repair the damage and build up the vision” of a “living ...