Though it may not seem like it, we automotive journalists aren't always jetting around the globe to extravagant destinations so we can drive expensive exotic cars. Sometimes we're asked to roll up our ...

Corporate America’s latest hot job is also one of the oldest in history: storyteller. Some companies want a media relations manager by a slightly flashier name. Others need people to produce blogs, ...

Since his death, aged 44, in 1894, Robert Louis Stevenson has had a “distinctly mixed” literary reputation, said Andrew Motion in The New Statesman. To many modernists, and especially the Bloomsbury ...

Car enthusiasts have a saying: You can’t drive a house, but you can live in a car. It’s used to justify irrational spending on this hobby of ours, whether that’s a $3,000 Trans Am found on Facebook ...

With his tall, thin body and his long arms and legs, Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) looked more like a bag of bones than a world-famous Scottish author. It was his eyes, though, which suggested ...

Leo Damrosch traces the life of an imperialist turned anti-imperialist who wrote several exceptional books and one groundbreaking masterpiece. By Francine Prose Francine Prose’s new novel, “Five Weeks ...

Robert Louis Stevenson recorded his first story before he was old enough to wield a pen. The future author of such stupendous tales as “Treasure Island” (1883) and “Kidnapped” (1886) was six years old ...

Security settings on Windows PCs often have admin rights enabled by default. It makes sense since most normal users shouldn’t need admin rights. However, many standard Windows users will come across ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Credible, confident eyewitnesses are typically very convincing to juries. This makes sense; assuming witnesses to be honest, there is a tendency to believe their accounts. After all, what honest ...

My wife’s grandmother is 100 years old. She is healthy, smart, energetic, and fun to be around. Last year at Thanksgiving, I sat at a table with her for an hour-and-a-half with my wife and her two ...

A couple of times a year, Overdrive offers its Big Library Read program for the Libby app. This allows public libraries to offer one free audiobook and e-book of a particular title with no waitlists ...