Bob Manson loves independent bookstores. How much? He's spent a decade visiting and blogging about hundreds of them.

From The Sorcerer's Stone to The Deathly Hallows Part 2, this is the definitive ranking of Harry Potter movies by book ...

Wicked includes many characters from the original Wizard of Oz story, but their arcs are reframed to reveal more about the ...

Marvel's Man Comics #26 from 1953 features a Spider-Man prototype radiation-transformed human spider at Los Alamos Laboratory ...

The proudly independent Children's Book World celebrates 35 years of books, literature and reading in Delaware County.

"Gibbet Hill" tells of a sailor murdered by three criminals whose bodies were strung up on a hanging gallows on a hill as a ghostly warning to passing travelers.

Amtrak eyes some retail changes at Union Station, a Mt. Vernon mansion goes up for auction and more to know today.

By J. D. Biersdorfer Our critic on new books by Stephanie Wrobel, Lawrence Robbins and Hildur Knútsdóttir. By Sarah Lyall A graphic tribute to the British novelist who documented the blight ...

The “Symphony of Dancin’ Bones” will be on display through Oct. 31 when Mount Clemens Mayor Laura Kropp will name the top ...

Amateur historian Brian Cleary was paging through Stoker’s works at the National Library of Ireland in Dublin, the gothic ...

Downtown Bloomington will host its annual trick-or-treat event from 5-8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25. Read on for more about this Halloween-themed event and more in Central Illinois.