Barnes & Noble Wants to Clear ‘Tchotchke’ Clutter, Sell More Books

By Jesse Schedeen, Blair Marnell and Kat Calamia The comic book industry closed out November with some major releases. DC delivered a new wave of annual issues, with books like Aquaman Annual #1, Batman Annual #2 and Super Sons Annual #1 rising above the crowd. Marvel wrapped up a major …

This article is part of the Opinion Today newsletter. You can sign up here to receive the newsletter each weekday. A few weeks ago, I read a short new book by the legal scholar Cass Sunstein titled, simply, “Impeachment.” The book doesn’t mention President Trump once. Sunstein started writing it, he told …

“Logan” has more in common with a western than with a comic-book blockbuster, and it became his most-beloved take on the character. Even Chris Hemsworth’s Thor got a literal and figurative make-over in “Thor: Ragnarok.” Indie director Taika Waititi essentially transitioned the God of Thunder away from …

James Rodgers does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no … As Donald Macintyre observes in his important new book, Gaza: Preparing for Dawn, the sea might also offer economic salvation.

There were even articles complaining that such places were much too expensive for the working man. The other thing that doesn’t change is that the poor old pub seems always to have been in a permanent state of crisis. So do some positive drinking next year, have a few at your local or it will disappear.

LaValle’s novel, about Apollo Kagwa, a used-book dealer, blends social criticism with horror, while remaining steadfastly literary. CHRISTMAS DAYS: 12 Stories and 12 Feasts for 12 Days. By Jeanette Winterson. (Grove, $24.) A gift book from the British novelist, containing otherworldly and wickedly funny …

In January 1994, for example, I published an article in the Ensign magazine under the title “News from Antiquity.” It was subtitled “Evidence supporting the book of Abraham continues to turn up in a wide variety of sources.” Later, with John Gee and William Hamblin, I published a 2005 article bearing the title …

I’d read various magazine articles about people in mid-life, in long-term relationships taking “marriage sabbaticals. … Sorry if this sounds like bragging, but when I was going through a lengthy spell of horrible depression, which started in 2009, I started writing a book in which I gave my terrifying state of mind …

Advertisers don’t care whether the person who read that story or saw that advertisement was reading something completely nonsensical or very a well-reported, well-edited article. All they care about is quantity, not quality. Knowledge@Wharton: You talk in the book about libraries, which aren’t being used …