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Royal Discount Bookstores, the discounting counterpart to the 35-store Lauriat's New England/New York chain, has purchased the well-known Buddenbrooks Booksmith store in Boston. Buddenbrooks owner Martin Weinkle bought the 50,000-title [...]

In an unusual budget allotment from the Massachusetts state legislature, $100,000 was authorized for the purchase of copies of The Historical Atlas of Massachusetts, published by the University of Massachusetts [...]

An estimated 30,000 people attended the first outdoor Copley Square Book Fair, organized by the Boston Parks and Recreation Department, June 12-13. In renovated Copley Square between historic Trinity Church [...]

More than 700 friends and neighbors overflowed the Union High School auditorium in Brattleboro, Vt., May 27, at the memorial service for Betsey Bonin, co-owner and manager of the Book [...]

A new picture book introduces children to the political, religious and sometimes aesthetic significance of walls around the world Margy Burns Knight recalls exactly when the idea for writing Talking [...]

Waterstone's Booksellers, owned by the W. H. Smith Group, will open a store in Chicago this fall, making it the U.K. chain's second 'superstore' in the U.S. Its Boston store [...]

Stephen Pekich, director of operations for school publishing at Houghton Mifflin, described the call for increased use of recycled paper as involving environmental and economic contradictions. In addition, he said, [...]

Sampling interviews by PW of coastal bookstore owners fortunately revealed relatively mild damage from Hurrican Bob, which swept the Eastern coast, venting most of its fury in New England, August [...]

In his morning keynote address before the New England conference of the Society of Children's Book Writers, Avi, a Newbery Honor winner, gave an astute description of age-old motivation behind [...]

Gives advice on lighting. Key elements in photography; Reciprocity failure when exposure times are longer than one second; Securing good contrast; Zone placement and negative development; Type of cameras used.

Discusses the challenges in cookbook publishing. Vegetables and vegetarianism; Health; Taste; Merging of cuisines; Four-color format; History of foods; Importance of graphics; Influence of the food pyramid; Availability of produce in the markets; People's interests not just in recipes but in how they fit into a lifestyle; Emphasis on nutrition; Fads; Cooking technique.

The article presents a profile and discusses the work of the American Pop artist Harold Stevenson. Topics addressed include: Stevenson's childhood in Idabel, Oklahoma, his relationship with his longtime lover, Lloyd Tugwell, and his experiences as an artist living in New York City and Paris, France. Several of Stevenson's most important works are discussed including "The New Adam," a controversial painting of a male nude housed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

The article offers information on the research conducted by Louis Jolyon West to a bull elephant named Tusko, who was transported to Lincoln Park Zoo in Oklahoma to acompany the resident elephant named Judy. It says that West and his research partners Chester Pierce and Warren Thomas, gave Tusko 297 milligrams of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in relation with their research on musth. It also states that after the negative reaction of Tusko to LSD, it died due to laryngeal spasm.

The article focuses on the statement of Steve Sherman of Fort Myers that protection of the lifestyle that people on the amount of water hydraulic fracturing requires and the strain the water tables may be under as the population in Southwest Florida continues to increase.

Two letters to the editor are presented, one in response to the article "Obama Forgot Who Won the Midterms" in the January 30, 2015 issue and another on an editorial about U.S. President Barack Obama.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to articles in previous issues including "A Cool and Aloof President Doesn't Serve America," by Mort Zuckerman and "Floating a Trial Balloon," both in the December 5, 2014 issue.

Two letters to the editor are presented in response to the article "Exposing Obama's 'False Choice,'" by Mary Kate Cary in the October 19, 2012 issue.

The article offers the author's insights regarding the dangerous crime obsession in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The author mentions that two perpetrators of crime were the subset of the real-estate industry and a crime-obsessed local media. The author states that the city center in Nairobi, Kenya was the second great casualty of security obsession.

Letters to the editor are presented in response to articles published in the June 18, 2012 issue including "What Was Lost in Vegas" on a boxing match between Tim Bradley and Manny Pacquiao, "Being the Natural Isn't Enough" on baseball player Andrew McCutchen and "Leading Man" on basketball player Russell Westbrook.