Laurie Hertzel remembers the old building on Portland Avenue in downtown Minneapolis and the space it had carved out just for books. At the time, she was the Minneapolis Star Tribune’s books editor, a ...

Mark Haddon, the best-selling author of “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” was an anxious and depressed child. He was afraid of sharks and airplanes, getting sucked into escalators ...

Kelly Rowland and Cliff 'Method Man' Smith in 'Relationship Goals' (Amazon) It didn’t used to be this way, but thanks to the magic of streaming you can now pause anything at any time and pick up on ...

You knew it years ago. When you were little and people asked you what you wanted to do when you grew up, the answer was obvious: you had a dream and an idea. Sure, other interests caught your eye once ...

Barney Rosset risked violence and insolvency so that his Grove Press could print unexpurgated American editions of such forbidden works as “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” in 1959 and “Tropic of Cancer” in ...

There’s an old saying that the “road to hell is paved with good intentions,” and that certainly seems to be the case for the narrator in Marisa Walz’s debut novel, which is aptly titled “Good ...

I almost wound up underlining all of Walter Isaacson’s slim new book, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written. It’s that smart, challenging, personal, humane -- with only 41 pages of text and a few short ...

In "Beth Is Dead," a modern reimagining of Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women," Beth, who hasn't returned home from a New Year's Eve party the night before, goes from missing to dead within the first ...

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At PCMag, my focus is on printers and scanners. I started out way back in 1988 at Compute!, which still had a section of the magazine devoted to type-in programs. Since then, I’ve written more than ...

Not this Baum. Asher Baum, the protagonist of Allen’s novel. Although the cover of Woody Allen’s novel What’s With Baum? riffs on Edvard Munch’s “The Scream,” the New York skyline in the background, a ...