To borrow from Marlon Brando in "On the Waterfront," they all coulda been contenders for the Oscar in a film in which one of ...

“I remember!” Jaime Cross confessed last week. “I remember the Waldenbooks store here at Tucson Mall. It was on the upper level, near Macy’s, I think. When I was young, we’d stop by ...

The last Kmart on the U.S. mainland sits at the west end of a busy suburban Miami shopping center, quiet and largely ignored.

The first Discovery store opened in 1995 and all 103 locations were closed by 2007, laying off around 1,000 employees.

In the store’s main room, there is a large section of toiletries and diapers ... The roots of Kmart’s decline were laid ...

Fashion Fair mall in central Fresno has landed two big new tenants: a Barnes & Noble bookstore and a new Starbucks coffee shop. The Starbucks won’t be in a traditional location. It’s inside the Macy’s ...

It has a frontage, first put up in 1979 and seemingly not touched since: on fading yellow, green letters have been attached, Walden Books, all in caps and slightly crooked. A front room that ...

Since then, however, they’ve sold out to Kmart, merged with Waldenbooks, bought themselves ... while a Borders manager may tell you that the store’s employees are more knowledgeable and ...

In the store’s main room ... roots of Kmart’s decline were laid during that decade when management bought Waldenbooks, Borders Books, Builders Square, The Sports Authority and a stake in ...

In the store’s main room ... roots of Kmart’s decline were laid during that decade when management bought Waldenbooks, Borders Books, Builders Square, The Sports Authority and a stake in ...

Our columnists on new books by John Banville, Kate Christensen under a pseudonym and more. By Sarah Weinman Novels by Haruki Murakami and Rebecca Yarros, memoirs by Angela Merkel and Cher, and ...

As libraries become public stages for social problems — homelessness, drug use, mental health — the people who work there are burning out. By Christina Caron In “Feast While You Can ...