THE BRIDGE OF THE GOLDEN HORN By Emine Sevgi Ozdamar. Serpent’s Tail, paper, .95. Skip to next paragraph Enlarge This Image Blast 1.Edited by Wyndham Lewis.Illustrated. 160 pp. Gingko. Paper, .95.Lewis (1882-1957) published two issues of the high-concept modernist ... [full story]

Sara Sloan could be the star of an advertisement for weight-reduction surgery. This 58-year-old retired teacher from Brooklyn had been “the heaviest kid in kindergarten, heavy my whole life,” she said, until she underwent gastric bypass surgery ... [full story]

PAT STRASSBERG, a bus driver and photographer from Bayville, N.Y., is an experienced summer renter. When she saw an ad on Craigslist for a two-bedroom cabin on a lake in Maine for 0 a week, with linens and maid service ... [full story]

MARSHFIELD, Wis. — Joseph Calderaro, 67, is one of health care’s quiet success stories. Over the last four years, he has carefully managed his diabetes by lowering his blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol with diet, exercise and medication. ... [full story]

Even before the financial crisis, most Americans were not saving enough for retirement. But the crisis has highlighted, and heightened, the risk of coming up short, as is clear to anyone who has dared to open his or her 401(k) ... [full story]

PHOENIX — For years, business boomed at Gilberto Preciado’s home-furnishings store in a working-class neighborhood near downtown Phoenix. But on a recent afternoon his showroom was deserted. Other businesses in his strip mall have been shutting down at a brisk ... [full story]

LOS ANGELES — In 1982, just as the VHS tape was taking off, a “Star Wars” buff named Mitch Lowe had a radical idea. What about building a vending machine that could rent movies? He called his invention Video Droid. ... [full story]

On Christmas Eve in 2007, the State of West Virginia bestowed upon Kathryn Kutil and Cheryl Hess of Oak Hill a relative rarity in the foster-care system: a newborn. The baby girl, TiCasey, was born on Dec. 8 to a ... [full story]

Film PEEKSKILL Paramount Center for the Arts “Lemon Tree,” directed by Eran Riklis. Friday through Wednesday. to . “Treeless Mountain,” directed by So Yong Kim. Featuring a talk with the director at the Friday ... [full story]

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — Every year, the Plexiglass display cases that encapsulate the careers of new inductees to the baseball Hall of Fame contain telling, singular artifacts. Skip to next paragraph Keep up with the latest news on ... [full story]