TROY, N.Y. – Local sex therapist Dr. Bridget M. Finn is sharing snippets from sessions in her new book “Inspired Vagina Capable Penis.” The book, Finn’s first, includes a frank and humorous collection ...

In a filing with the Second Circuit last week, Google defended its practice of displaying snippets in Google Books, and urged an appeals court to affirm Judge Denny Chin’s 2013 holding that the ...

Cover of Guestbook: Ghost Stories, by Leanne Shapton (image courtesy Riverhead Books) What does it mean to be haunted? A haunted house is home to spirits, while a haunted person struggles with ...

Twenty years in prison drove Roderick “Rudy” Bankston to the dictionary, unlocking a lifelong passion for words. Sentenced to life at age 19 for a crime he didn’t commit, Bankston turned to books to ...

A long-running copyright lawsuit between the Authors' Guild and Google over its book-scanning project is over, and Google has won on the grounds that its scanning is "fair use." In other words, the ...

THE hero of “The Library of Babel”, a story by Jorge Luis Borges, loses himself in a gargantuan repository of every possible book in the universe. Google Books isn’t quite that vast, but it is big.