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The phenomenon is bipartisan. This week, Trump argued that by many markers — the price of gas, the stock market, the fall in ...

Some longevity influencers attract rubbernecking for their quixotic quests to live forever, epitomized by venture capitalist Bryan Johnson’s vampiric infusions of his teenage son’s blood plasma. Peter ...

Trumpism is often cast as a personalist project representing no coherent capitalist interest. But it is also the product of ...

Jake Reiss got into bookselling for the money and the girls. Now that he’s ninety years old, he cares less about both, but he ...

Every team has cover tropes of their own, images and ideas that are brought back numerous times over the decades. X-Men (Vol. 1) #139 introduced a cover trope to the X-Men, one that we would see many, ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. In honor of the American Girl brand’s 40th anniversary this year, a new historical fiction novel on Samantha Parkington is headed to ...

The Flash is a hero who has been running with the speed of a lightning bolt since his debut in 1940. Whether it be Jay Garrick, Barry Allen, or Wally West, the Flash ranks among DC Comics’ most iconic ...

As book orders kept getting canceled and backlogs piled up, Milford Public Library Director Scott Brill knew he had to make a choice. For years, public libraries trusted a company called Baker & ...

The mass market paperback, light in the hand and on the wallet, once filled airport bookstores and supermarket media aisles. You may never buy a new one again. Credit...Photographs by Tony Cenicola ...

When you’ve got a name like Karin Slaughter, you’re pretty much destined to write crime novels. The thriller author is known for “We Are All Guilty Here,” “Pretty Girls” and the “Will Trent” series, ...

B.K. Borison really delivered Good Spirits and cozy vibes with her first book in her Ghosted series. And while she has another novel already on the way, she's ready to deliver some more tidings and ...