Pairing the right reader with the right book is too delicate a task to leave to e-commerce robots

"I don't really see the relevance of it," he said, "as long as it's two consenting adults, it doesn't matter"

White nationalism can be traced back to the 17th century in Barbados

The shadow history of musical instruments.

Two new young adult novels are smarter, better-written and more emotionally complex than most adult fiction

Are girls and young women "hooking up" and tuning out emotionally?

As the outbreak continues to spread, opportunistic sellers are hastily churning out prevention and survival guides

"I was critically aware of my own white male gaze," Timothy Greenfield-Sanders tells Salon

A Japanese publisher is arrested for allegedly grafting the heads of rock stars onto the bodies of porn stars.

How the crime novelist taught me to stand up for myself and taught my son about the carnal pleasures of reading

An ode to loud, stinky, filthy canines and the pathologically needy people who love them.

How to decrease the number of injured soldiers? Change the way you count them.

A robotics expert who helped build Curiosity tells the harrowing story of landing the rover on the Red Planet

An angry judge -- and huge "Star Trek" fan -- blasts the sleazy Prenda Law firm into oblivion

Gary Shteyngart's biting satire of a tech-mad America in decline has a surprisingly tender heart