JC Penney announced in 1925 it would remodel the store in Manistee, to include public restrooms and a bigger shoe department.

In Evie Wyld’s new novel, “The Echoes,” a woman mourns her partner while also contending with the traumatic past she left ...

Seattle satirist Maria Semple’s breakthrough novel is a flurry of contemporary, epistolary wit. Passive aggressive e-mail ...

It’s the concrete jungle where dreams are made of. Reading books set in New York City or about the city itself offers a ...