Wall Street Journal: Books

A new study finds that just taking a picture—and the procedure associated with it—appears to treat infertility.

Americans collectively waste billions of dollars a year overpaying for parking. Humorist Joe Queenan adds up the costs of other daily annoyances.

Novelist Elizabeth Strout on the changing meanings of the Bob Dylan standby ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ for a child raised in Maine and later listening as an adult.

A new book showcases the clean, simple style of modernist buildings.

Research shows that Facebook social networks can play a role in—and possibly enhance—intimacy and grieving after the loss of a close friend.

The former ballerina, who reluctantly left the New York City Ballet three years ago, talks about aging out of her field and finding a new place in contemporary dance.

Marcel Pagnol’s Marseille Trilogy—‘Marius,’ ‘Fanny‘ and ‘César’—tells a story filled with comedy and emotion, realism and poetry.

Coalfield Development Corp. is training unemployed people in West Virginia to work in industries like agriculture and solar power.

Inspired by the structure of moths’ eyes, researchers have invented a coating that sharply cuts the sun’s glare on electronic screens.

Researchers have started to unravel why older brains are less flexible than young ones—and have used their findings to reverse the process.