BOOKS

Between on-set injuries, extensive script changes, and one whopper of a casting process, it’s amazing that a single film was produced at all.

Les Premières Œuvres de Jacques Devaulx showed the way to the New World in 1583.

The previous record was held by ‘All the Way,’ a play featuring Bryan Cranston as Lyndon Johnson.

In the 1950s, Isaac Asimov wrote a series of six science fiction novels for children using the pseudonym Paul French.

Charles-Joseph Minard's map of Napoleon's invasion of Russia has been called the best statistical graphic ever created.

We rounded up some of the more surprising aspects of the first edition that were later cleaned up or scrubbed from the text altogether.

Technically, the author did give birth to the boy wizard.

They terrified Old Nan—and now we understand why.

The first edition featured 39 pages on horse diseases.

The library classification system isn't perfect—and neither was its creator.

Of the hundreds of books that crossed our desks in 2018, these were our favorites.

"I seemed to have him kidnapped and killed for no good reason."